Extremely poor planning/lawyering on the companies part. When larger entities deal with smaller entities, it's common to have a source code escrow as part of th

Extremely poor planning/lawyering on the companies part. When larger entities deal with smaller entities, it's common to have a source code escrow as part of the agreement which grants the purchasing company rights to the source code in the event of this exact situation. Obviously we all know that source code alone isn't enough, but it is something to start from. If the ERP solution was not SaaS and installed on site, the purchasing companies IT should have gotten credentials as part of the contract. Again, normal type stuff when buying software from smaller companies that have somewhat higher risk of going out of business.