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It's because they understand capitalism better than they understand software. The former is how you win capitalism, the latter is just a cost center.

Same with Oracle. Both of them are good at getting contracts and then executing them not poorly enough that it's breach of contract but not well enough that the customer stops paying. That's their business, not software.



Vendor lock in is a hell of a drug.

Would you want to go and spend billions to migrate off Microsoft/Oracle when you could just not and get to the next quarter.




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