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Bean counters and risk management.

When you have a small risk of losing billions and a fixed, small price for settle the risk, you will decide to whatever is smaller.

No one, inside Cisco/Juniper/ whatever will ever be confronted why he chose to minimize risks. And this also applies to buying some gartner recommendation, doing business with IBM or Microsoft etc. Being on the safe side helps you have a long path in the company road.