[Spooky23]

Exactly. The issue tends to be that you need Oracle Financials or PeopleSoft, so you are forced to build in-house expertise, or bring in consultants.

Once you’ve introduced the Oracle, unless you firewall these people, those people end up “infecting” other processes. Oracle pays salespeople more to cross-sell their colleagues, and your Oracle SMEs start seeding Oracle shit wherever they can. You inevitably violate a license agreement, and then end up buying more Oracle shit as a penance. And the cycle continues.

Once infected, it’s difficult to cure. You need the rare combo of strong IT and business leadership and hands on, aggressive legal over a period of years. While battling, the vendor will do whatever they can to undermine that leadership and reward allies.