because the bean counter making the purchase will get 10% in gifts. and he want those gifts. so you better don't bad mount bb.

and now going to be downvoted by the blissful ignorant of how large universities works in the daily grinding of the gears.

The amount of corruption and back-scratching that goes on in enterprise IT sales always saddens me. One of the appeals of Open Source is that you can more easily avoid the salesguys who want to compromise you morally for the sale.