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Re: affordable

"Why does Microsoft or anybody else assume it's the right tool for the job? Because it's affordable probably. Not suitable, but affordable."

It's only affordable because the visible up front costs have been skewed so that the cost of failure comes out of some other sucker's budget. If organisations were held responsible for what they delivered (and often what they didn't deliver)... well the whole IT business might look rather different.

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