Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by toyg on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:01AM (#26709661)

It's the classic-PHP of business systems. You could build great systems in (old-school) PHP, which dramatically improved users' lives; but more often than not, you'd end up with an unmaintainable bowl of spaghetti instead, that only the original cook could understand - and very rarely users' lives would actually improve in any meaningful way.

It's the same with SAP.

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Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by rurban on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:38AM (#26747348)

Not comparable. PHP has at least fantastic performance. SAP is not only as ugly and illdesigned as PHP, it is mostly slow as hell. Besides expensive. PHP is free.

To run a simple non-official query, you would need to aquire a timeslot on Friday evening running over all 100.000 records, because the thing will run for half an hour. Not kidding.

I talked to the sales agent why they don't add indices to their database, and he answered "we don't need explicit indices. Our system is so advanced, it does auto-indexing". Lol. They really believe their own bullshit. Looks like their idea of a JOIN are 3 nested for loops.

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