Geisel’s wife Helen had a long struggle with illnesses. On October 23, 1967, Helen died by suicide. On August 5, 1968, Geisel married Audrey Dimond, a married mother of two children with whom he had been having an affair.

Oh wow. Yeah he definitely should be in that list.

Even Dr. Seuss? 😢

I guess someone needs to do this 🙄

A Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man. (wikipedia link)

I’m not disagreeing with you on that :)
Personally I’ve been arguing for less Microsoft dependence within my organization for years, and have quietly been doing what I can without without making it too obvious.

In any case, my point is that counter-arguments like reduction in functionality, increase in expenditure, and so forth, no longer hold the same weight like they used to.
Here in the Netherlands, there’s been a much stronger mandate given from top-down to look for more sovereignty. Because the risks that come with the alternative are becoming more clear with every passing month.

The price could be in costs, but it could also be in reduced functionality.
A standard response that a lot of Microsoft trained IT ops people give is that the other products are inferior, harder to use, require more administration, etc. And it used to be that this would shut down a lot of discussions about moving away from MS.

But the message I hear nowadays is that this will be a price worth paying, and that disarms a lot of the usual naysayers.

The general message I hear among enterprise architects is that there’s a price for IT sovereignty.
But that it’s a price worth paying.