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Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by jimnotgym on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:09AM (#13513772)
>significant sums of money invested in people and procedures

The sunk cost fallacy! A better reason not to change is that a different system would cost significant sums of money retraining people and procedures

That assumes that people act rationally though, so I am not saying you are wrong that people think like this

Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by nine_k on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:56AM (#13514128)
Don't forget the risk of an expensive screw-up when switching to a new system. Unless there are clear business advantages, switching to a new system from an old, archaic but battle-tested system doesn't look enticing for most companies.