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What I mean is that these kinds of people usually look at the financial cost per year for a given solution that's already in place and always look for something cheaper (usually only on paper).
Usually they look at the cost of a licence without giving a single thought about, let's say, the processing power that'll be needed for the new thing, the expertise to set it up and run it, and all the migration work that will be needed to make the switch.
Also, when these things happen, most of the time you have to fire/hire/train people to adapt, which means you lose some of your internal knowledge and experience. That's something that can't be really quantified and can really hurt an IT system.
In the end, with all the cumulative costs, it's often far more expensive to switch solutions, and not financially speaking, but that doesn't necessarily appear on the bottom line they will see from their desks.
What you are describing would mean they are very stupid in the exact thing which is supposed to be their strong side.
It's just corruption. Politicians have long learned that to appear stupid is advantageous - plebes don't get alarmed when they see something wrong, but can explain it by stupidity, and they also don't insist on rolling it back.
These people are vermin. The best thing Germans can do for their future is to interrogate meticulously, investigate and jail for life all of the German politicians who've touched power in the last 20 years, with death sentences postponed by 20 years, and maybe also check their family members. The second best thing would be a good French 60s' style revolution, which would likely lead to the same anyway, because what's secret would no longer be that.
Similar for many other European countries.
No, I'm not fascist, actually kinda anarchist (more ancap than ancom, but tolerant to the latter).