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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by dominotw on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:17AM (#32778818)
> . The SAP solution missed so many edge cases that a huge number of lab reports were either inaccurate or completely wrong because information was lost in SAP translation between different labs.

Is this the story of every migration, every rewrite though?

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by marcosdumay on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:30AM (#32780437)
On every rewrite, the system gets either better with time or abandoned.

A system completely broken forever is something only the upper management can create.

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