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Welcome to enterprise software, you must be new here. The big ERP vendors have armies of lawyers and patents that can stymie and delay any IP claims from small
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Welcome to enterprise software, you must be new here.
The big ERP vendors have armies of lawyers and patents that can stymie and delay any IP claims from smaller firms. At the same time, SAP has active relationships with all the customers who matter, and the SAP brand still carries weight, so their version of the product will almost always win a big chunk of market share, despite being inferior.
The only reason there were consequences for SAP in this case is because they stole from Oracle; who invented this playbook.
- rapsey 5y agoDistribution trumps all in the enterprise space. If you have the distribution you can sell complete garbage for the price of gold, while sucker upstarts make quality products and live off crumbs.
- wayoutthere 5y agoRight; which is why the exit strategy in the enterprise software space is to get acquired by Oracle / SAP / Microsoft / Salesforce.
- logosmonkey 5y ago100% the amount of garbage product I have seen corporations buy is astounding cough Informatica cough. I have also never seen a piece of enterprise software that does half of what a VP was promised it would do.