Comment Re:Wonderful Support... (Score 2) 627
Well I have direct first hand experience of a situation where it was not that we "couldn't use open source software", but we had been given massive discounts on tens of thousands of (enterprise server) licenses on the condition that certain key named internal software projects were developed solely on Windows - any attempt to even investigate porting any of these products to a non-Windows platform would breach the contract and thus incur the full cost of all those licenses for the entire license period.
We were allowed to use other compilers, and certain other technologies, but the point was that we had secured a huge cost savings based on our continued commitment to the Windows platform.
And this part of the commitment to Windows wasn't widely known within the organisation until, well, somebody nearly commissioned what would have been a very costly pilot to explore saving a few hundred thousand dollars...
No, I can't name names, but I have more than 25 years and I don't need to make up BS...