The problem is that the business processes (A) are not understood, (B) are not deterministic, (C) are too complicated to implement in maintainable code (in any

The problem is that the business processes (A) are not understood, (B) are not deterministic, (C) are too complicated to implement in maintainable code (in any language). Everything flows from the effort to conceal these facts. That is the reason for the market dominance of IBM, and Oracle, and Microsoft: they are effective as partners in concealment.