[Supermancho]

Choices of vendor are not binary. There are tradeoffs between available solutions in software. Software Quality is not a linear gradient.

If your solution is the best compromise, it is more likely to be selected.

[kunley]

Well at companies is much less compromise than politics. Over decaces I saw two main schemas:

- product must be purchased because its vendor is somehow connected to the upper management or the investor

- product must be purchased because the person who has chosen the product is at the moment perceived as having some kind of holy cow status and can't be criticized, so people around put that to the extreme

Happening at most of companies everywhere.