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by eBombzor 756 days ago
Sounds obvious in theory but the majority of applications are targeted for a very specific audience, i.e. banking, freight forwarding, CRM even. Not to mention if you work at a mid+ size company you'll be working on a piece of the application. Good luck trying to use that in your day to day life.
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If you're writing software to automate a business process, you're well advised to spend some time learning how to do the job you're automating so you some idea if what you're making is shit or not.
Or you could just write ERP software, secure in the knowledge that the customer organisation will be bent to conform to the ERP model.