Haha My experience has been bit different with medium size companies. Small companies just dont buy any custom-developed software. Medium-sized have the money t

Haha My experience has been bit different with medium size companies. Small companies just dont buy any custom-developed software. Medium-sized have the money to pay for custom development, but not for buying SAP. And the executives are extremely sensitive to the effect of the software on work efficiency - basically this is what they pay for, the software is supposed to make employees more effective so they can avoid hiring more people. If the application gets slow and can't keep up with the business then they need to move more people to handle the slow task and the app developers get grilled. On the other hand, in large companies, management quite often ignores it, they can just hire more people and thus grow their kingdoms.