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by katz 6326 days ago
"I'm not sure there is such thing as an inherently boring software project."

Have you never heard of SAP?
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raganwald 6326 days ago
My name is Nikolai B. Round up a couple of friends and I'll give you $6,000 each to build a competitor to SAP. You have only two constraints:

1. You must build a convincing prototype before you run out of Ramen 2. People must actually like using it.

Go!

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c00p3r 6325 days ago
It was developed almost 30 years ago. It's based on technologies from 80th. It's don't scale. It's have no community. support. It will cost you a fortune for pre-start, a fortune for make it work, and a fortune for thousand hours of sly consulters and fake trainers. It's for medium business.

For medium-size business its much cheaper to hire some pros who will make analysis of your business processes and build something based on modern technologies. The distributed computing is already mainstream with several OSS codebases.

Of course, if you're Boieng or Citi Group there are no alternatives.

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c00p3r 6325 days ago
SAP is a brand. It's all about sales, not software, which actually is a terrible mess.

And of course it is an ecosystem, where you must pay for every little step. It is much worse than MS.

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