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SAP is just an over-bloated RDBMS that does some data-manipulation that you bet your business will work as it should, written by a bunch of German engineers wit
by blacksqr 11y ago
SAP is just an over-bloated RDBMS that does some data-manipulation that you bet your business will work as it should, written by a bunch of German engineers with a track record of getting it right.
- blacksqr 11y agoI'm reminded of what Philip Greenspun wrote back in 1997: "Corporations have gotten burned so many times by buggy C/Fortran/COBOL programs that they aren't willing to take risks. They pay Oracle a huge ransom and suffer what is sometimes a factor of 1000 in reduced performance just so that they are sure to never lose a transaction."