Often in corporate environments people are asked to justify a choice of technology, and an approach to a problem. It is quite natural for the people making the

Often in corporate environments people are asked to justify a choice of technology, and an approach to a problem. It is quite natural for the people making the decision to choose technology they're most familiar and comfortable with, and positioning it in a favorable light. I imagine this is what happened here. The actual merit of the competing technology is simply not part of the evaluation. This is at least a step up from government procurement processes where the procurement officer, who has zero technical knowledge, procures based on a checklist he or she is unable to correctly assess bidder responses to, and of course price.