There's the old saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." If you have the same stuff that everybody else is using, and something goes wrong, it's the faul

There's the old saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." If you have the same stuff that everybody else is using, and something goes wrong, it's the fault of that thing, and it's OK. But if you get your own weird stuff and something goes wrong, it's your fault, and is especially shameful if it looks like you were trying to be cheap.