>which is why most enterprise software companies end up as consulting companies after a certain scale. Also, after growing to a big enough size, the software c

>which is why most enterprise software companies end up as consulting companies after a certain scale. Also, after growing to a big enough size, the software company can do "consulting" work without it hurting them. When Microsoft Windows NT first came out, I always thought it was strange that they had POSIX[1] support. There was no I company I knew that actually used POSIX apis. It was only several years later at a Microsoft conference where an employee mentioned that POSIX was there to satisfy some government checkboxes. By adding POSIX, Microsoft was able to sell a ton of Windows licenses to the government. Most other enterprise software companies don't get an obvious ROI like that for customer-specific features. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem