The section on why danger failed within MS and the section on dogfooding are mostly true in my experience, having worked for an acquired company for almost a ye

The section on why danger failed within MS and the section on dogfooding are mostly true in my experience, having worked for an acquired company for almost a year now within MS. There is an unnatural compulsion within the company to expel foreign technologies, especially those of competitors. Inevitably acquired companies will wind up porting their software to whatever insane crap their business unit is using as a development stack. We're about to start going through that pain right now.