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I think this is purely first mover advantage. We get stuck with bad products simply because those were the first products on the market. It is difficult to change them once everyone uses them. The same applies to the adoption of IT on the banking industry. Now we are stuck with COBOL and systems that are hard to migrate without damaging the economy.


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