Software vendors like Oracle and SAP do everything in their power to lock you into their services while doing the absolute minimum to fulfill any contract.

It took our IT over 4 years to migrate away from Siebel to Salesforce and it's going on 3 years since. I just learned the other day we still have a Siebel DB lingering around as a dirty little secret.

We move away from Lotus Notes over 10 years ago and we still have some Notes Apps used by our Legal Department.

>You can pick another commercial software vendor.

With what's left of your budget, which is now very, very negative. Better to redefine abject failure as success to minimize the chances of it ending your career if you're involved in firm purchasing in any way. It's not like boards of directors have a clue. The big consulting firms will assist pulling the wool and priming the press so they can move onto the next mark. It's impossible to by cynical enough.

It's getting more common than not that they all remove the same popular features and add the same dark patterns.