My first job out of college in the late 90s was in a large division of a larger company (about 80k employees at the time) that was being spun off in the hopes of selling it. As they were going to be made a stand-alone company they needed their own ERP etc and went with SAP. After two years and $50M the dotcom crash killed any chance of selling the new company and it was absorbed back into the mother ship and SAP was thrown away.