> Once you reach the Microsoft of the 1990's era level size (or Oracle, or SAP) you can ignore some of the truisms from the leaner days and do different things

> Once you reach the Microsoft of the 1990's era level size (or Oracle, or SAP) you can ignore some of the truisms from the leaner days and do different things that would have killed a younger version of your company. I think there are two sides of this. There’s of course a much stronger need to integrate with established systems, no matter the unnecessary complexity, for those companies. They need to provide stronger compatibility guarantees as well as mitigate risk. The other side is that once you have that many resources, it becomes less necessary to strive for simplicity and uniformity. The value for those companies shifted a long time ago from engineering to business processes.