[pmart123]

Well, I believe some of the licensing was combative to many realities of best 21st century business practices. SAP had several lawsuits against some of its biggest clients, and as a result, changed its pricing methodology. In that particular case, I believe SAP was trying to count every automated process or algorithm that needed access to the data for reporting and analytics as a user versus now where there’s a cost to create a new entry in an ERP system, but zero added cost to read records. Some of the hatred that has developed around licensing seems to be that the vendor is working directly against the interests of its customers.