[jerrac]

I work in the IT department at a community college. One of the biggest costs we face is our ERP, Ellucian's Banner. I'm not on that team, but the number of times I've been interrupted by them talking about a problem in Banner is really really high.

AFAIK, the biggest reason there are no real competitors is that Ellucian does a good job packaging the law and regulation related stuff for financial aid. Apparently that's difficult enough that no open source alternative or non-open source company has been able to do better.

I'd love to see someone fix that problem.