[David]

Absolutely, if you have the budget to build, maintain, and support a custom ERP, it may be the way to go. But I think it's a tiny fraction of businesses where the benefits of that outweigh the extra costs involved. You have to be very large, and your issues with existing systems have to be pretty expensive, before that's the case.

Out of curiosity, do you know / can you share what kinds of problems caused the Peoplesoft investment to fall apart? What issues did they run into?