It has always been common knowledge among systems designers that single point failure is brittle, which eventually leads to catastrophic failure. But centralization is often convenient, until you hit that catastrophic failure, and then you can put the price tag on it.

Which is to say, companies that were affected by the outage have done the math, and certainly they will if they’re part of these lawsuit efforts. Inevitably many of them have already discussed what they’re going to do to make sure that they don’t experience the same thing next week or next year.

Many software vendors won’t change. But some of the clients surely will, or have already.