[kneebonian]

You have to understand their competitive moat, DoD and especially Pentagon contracts.

Most companies don't have the capitalization, runway or people who are so badly broken as to go through the bidding process for something like that.

[treeman79]

Yep was at a small startup and the owner insisted we go with IBM, over the protest of everyone. Months of work and we got infrastructure moved over. Only to find out the stack we were sold on was being sunset. Owner insisted we move to the new stack. Month later we were on new stack. This happened twice more.

[ElfinTrousers]

"Small startup" and "IBM stack" are not things you hear of in combination that often and I guess this is one reason why.

[red-iron-pine]

Almost as bad as Oracle