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It's not even true. The "biggest" companies still use the same software (SAP, DB/2, ...) that other companies use for finance, legal, logistics, ... Example ar

It's not even true. The "biggest" companies still use the same software (SAP, DB/2, ...) that other companies use for finance, legal, logistics, ... Example article: http://www.erpsoftwareblog.com/2012/11/why-does-microsoft-hq-use-sap-instead-of-microsoft-dynamics-erp/ http://www.erpsoftwareblog.com/2012/11/why-does-microsoft-hq... (not sure if still accurate in 2017, but I think it is)

djrogers 8y ago
At a company the size of Microsoft, the software they use to run their corporate HR and financial analytics on is of little consequence - the key is the software/platform that they sell to their customers, IE Azure, AWS etc. The amount of resources that go in to SAP, while large, are a rounding error compared to the resources spent on building a compute platform.