It seems the point of this fight is bidding when the company/government is already biased towards a specific vendor. I have seen too many software vendors beat

It seems the point of this fight is bidding when the company/government is already biased towards a specific vendor. I have seen too many software vendors beat out the competition on an objective technical scale that I have taken a part in evaluating only to have Oracle win the entire contract with a sub par product and watching management skew the numbers into Oracle's favor so that their bosses remain happy. They'll spend more money for a lesser product simply because that is the status quo.