Fastfission wrote: <snip>
My purely speculative guess is that -- like large universities and other slow-to-change bureaucracies which have no profit motive, tight funds, and no customer-feedback systems -- they think in terms of big, uniform solutions that cost lots of money, are hard to upgrade, and are centrally controlled.
On the contrary, universities *do* have profit motives, money available, and customer feedback systems. They still use big, uniform solutions that cost lots of money, are hard to upgrade, and are centrally controlled, but they generally manage to upgrade things at the end of each academic year.