I've worked for a corp that spent good money to mirror their entire Salesforce setup internally on the basis that Salesforce was expensive, slow, and had all th

I've worked for a corp that spent good money to mirror their entire Salesforce setup internally on the basis that Salesforce was expensive, slow, and had all their customer data and could bring the entire business to its knees. I've worked for another corp that spent insane amounts for a CMS that nobody understood and required a full time engineer on duty to "unlock" files for the content team - this company later built a simple CMS that just stored a title, body and image in a database because I shit you not: thats 90% of what they needed from a CMS and to do quick announcements/news in a mobile app would have taken weeks longer to develop if they had to integrate with the real CMS. This was a few years ago before LLMs btw, so I can only imagine how crazy it is today