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Nothing is more exemplary of Oracle's incompetence than the #1 database company being unable to produce competitive ERP systems that are nothing but databases w
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Nothing is more exemplary of Oracle's incompetence than the #1 database company being unable to produce competitive ERP systems that are nothing but databases with front ends.
ERP is also something that should technically be achievable with a large industry-sponsored open source project but it never happens.
- xxpor 3y agoThis completely misses what the SAP business actually entails. No one runs "SAP". They run "SAP as customized for business X". That customization costs millions of dollars. It encodes every little specific thing about the business. Companies run their entire operation on top of it. It's impossible to replace, because it can't go down. Ever. An open source version would be only step one, and not that useful by itself. You'd still need to create the entire consultant ecosystem SAP has on top.
- unethical_ban 3y agoI'd pay for HN premium to double upvote this.
- kobalsky 3y ago> ERP systems that are nothing but databases with front ends. I’d love to see the face of anyone operating under this belief when they get to the tax code of any country that is not the US.