That's how accidents are made. If you can't spend a small fraction of the budget for the solution to experimentally verify that it is in fact the optimum solution you may very well be leading the company down a road that will cost them significantly more. It's not up to the writer of the article to provide you with the tools to run your least-cost-analysis, that's up to you and your bosses! (After all, you're the beneficiaries.)
