For the most part, I agree with this, except where people do care what tools you use for the wrong reasons. For example, a VP of Something dictates that you use

For the most part, I agree with this, except where people do care what tools you use for the wrong reasons. For example, a VP of Something dictates that you use DB2 just because he wants to be on the good side of IBM. Or VP of Something Else says you can't use Apache because she distrusts open source and says you have to use IIS with your Java application.