[osigurdson]

Businesses are theoretically all about money but end up being driven by pride half the time.

[cubano]

Of course. Why would you expect anything but? Pride is actually a very good driver of change if you ask me because people often do their best work when they are proud of what they are building.

[osigurdson]

Perhaps ego is a better term. Concretely, why migrate hotmail from unix to Windows except due to ego? The NPV has to be negative here.

[throwaway2037]

Makes sense to me. After all, businesses are run by humans, who have egos to satisfy.

[guenthert]

Engineers might take pride in their work, but on this level in a big organization, I rather suspect turf wars as motivation.