Yea, that’s pretty much what I meant as well. Knowing the project is backed by a significant amount of money makes it a lot easier to rationalize using the pro

Yea, that’s pretty much what I meant as well. Knowing the project is backed by a significant amount of money makes it a lot easier to rationalize using the product within your stack for the reasons you mentioned. This is usually more spreadsheet-acrobatics than actual reasoning (as is so often the case in enterprise) however, so YMMV for the actual outcome.