As a physicist who worked in Biology for a while, money didn't always make things better and sometimes made it worse. Programs with slick user interfaces tended to be overwhelmingly chosen over better open source programs which were command line. In bioinformatics a lot of excellent software is open source and updated regularly. In contrast, closed source software could be nightmarishly opaque in how it handled the data. Also, companies had better salespeople than open source proponents. Graduate students used to take bets about whether a software would be purchased by looking at how hot the salesperson was.
