[jeremyjh]

Those are custom software or heavily customized implementations of ERP and similar systems for very large organizations. I’m talking more about the SMB market where today it’s possible for a small team to carve out a niche and make a nice living or even bootstrap a venture that competes with a large player that has poor UX or antiquated feature designs.

The reason Oracle can continue failing at those massive projects is simple: everyone fails at them routinely and often it’s the customers fault.

[johnnyanmac]

>The reason Oracle can continue failing at those massive projects is simple: everyone fails at them routinely and often it’s the customers fault.

It's even simpler. Youre not paying oracle for some delapidated HR system. You're paying for the legion of accountability that is their on-site engineers to fix stuff for you when things screw up. You're essentially subscribing to a team of engineers you don't need to directly pay salary and benefits to.

People who think you can out efficiency that kind of accountability don't understand how large orgs think.

[ocdtrekkie]

I used to gripe about various ERP companies but after having dealt with enough, yeah, that's just what the world of ERP systems is like. You will spend your time even with the best of them desiring to scream endlessly at everyone who works there. And they also know your pain but are powerless to help.

[namtab00]

there are no 2 identical deployed ERP systems.

It's just an umbrella term for "weak process glue code".