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Re:What's SAP? by taneq on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:16AM (#22244923)
If you're a big enough organisation to need an ERP like SAP, it would cost more to manage your data with spreadsheets than it would cost to just license SAP.

I mean, that's literally how you price enterprise software.

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Re:What's SAP? by sdan on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:36AM (#22245349)
Interesting. Was thinking that some startup could exactly do this, but realized that given how deeply integrated SAP/Oracle is (as mentioned in the article) it's very hard to do.

Basically: Make a really bad product + make it mission critical = a product that people are literally glued to using

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Re:What's SAP? by bonzini on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:12AM (#22245805)
Salesforce is probably the closest that happened to "some startup that could do this", and it's almost as big and complex as SAP.
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