First, the statement implies an organization that is going to judge IT decision making not on its merits or applicability but on the brand name recognition of the product maker. In order for a statement like this to have any truth behind it, it requires the entire organization to either lack the ability or desire to evaluate decisions but also an organizational desire to see large, expensive brand names (the statement is always made in conjunction with extremely high cost items compared to the alternatives) over other alternatives. An organizational preference towards expensive, harder to justify spends is a dangerous one at best. We assume that not only does buying the most expensive, most famous products will be judged well compared to less expensive or less well known ones, but that buying products is seen as beneficial to not buying products; even though often the best IT decisions are to not buy things when no need exists. Prioritizing spending over savings for their own reasons without consideration for the business need is very bad, indeed.