Not sure how to avoid the legal entanglements my employer has placed in the IT teams path but I'll try to provide a real-world example without breaking confidentially agreements we all were required to sign for continued employment at a very large US-based bank. Our senior IT team had proposed a multi-year upgrade to v6 for our existing internal network, external services and connectivity to partner companies in 2009. It was fully funded in 2010, with staffing, vendor reqs and milestones set. At the end of 2012 our companies senior finance team reviewed the benefits and progress. They came away with a very simple view but alas one which could not be overcome. They held that our bank did not gain any strategic advantage by rolling out v6 but instead now had two entire security and software profiles to maintain. Hence our company has "mothballed" the project and has reassigned the entire team to other business needs. So, our globally known brand will only keep a nominal amount of ongoing public statements of being in support of v6 when in reality we are no longer going to deploy it until the market demands it. I have been employed here through two mergers and thought very hard about leaving, as did several of us that put a lot of effort into the project. But in the end, the job is secure, it is not my company to tell them they are wrong and I can't fault the logic no matter how much I wish. Upon reading this thread I'm dumbstruck at each of the arguments. None really matter. I had to agree, there was zero gain to be found for my company, today or in the immediate future, to proceed but there is plenty of downside. I read the zealots comments and know that they will claim we are fools. We, as a team, thought so too. But now several months removed, we all actually agree with the business/finance group. So there it is. I cannot give specifics, but a well-known global bank has turned out the lights for now on the v6 deployment. It wasn't due to the lack of selling to executives, as this thread contends can be done, but due to the lack of any business case that could be found. Jerry