Opaque billing and lack of customer oversight/clue are powerful components of this. Shit gets bought and then sits unused a lot of times. I've worked for a comp

Opaque billing and lack of customer oversight/clue are powerful components of this. Shit gets bought and then sits unused a lot of times. I've worked for a company about 10 years ago which got sold IBM DB2 at a cost of $2M/yr. The company had no use whatsoever for DB2, but paid for a few years of that until they hired people (me) who convinced them they don't need it. It was replaced with a MS SQL subscription which cost a "mere" $150K/yr at the time, and _was_ actually used. Some companies just have way too much money and no clue.