The original comment seems to have misquoted this part:
"I don’t blame them for this, they were placed in a nearly impossible situation by their customer, the (dutch, not associated with the company that built the whole thing) project manager was dictating what hardware they were going to have to run their project on (I have a suspicion why but that’s another story)"
Sounds like the project manager was also outsourced to a 3rd entity and may have had some vested interest in the hardware part of the project. This just goes to show that the financial interests of those steering the "ship" better be aligned with those of the "ship" itself, or hilarity/misery ensues.
"I don’t blame them for this, they were placed in a nearly impossible situation by their customer, the (dutch, not associated with the company that built the whole thing) project manager was dictating what hardware they were going to have to run their project on (I have a suspicion why but that’s another story)"
Sounds like the project manager was also outsourced to a 3rd entity and may have had some vested interest in the hardware part of the project. This just goes to show that the financial interests of those steering the "ship" better be aligned with those of the "ship" itself, or hilarity/misery ensues.