Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Follow the money in SMB open source market
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Where Microsoft has developed an enormous business in training re-sellers,
>| and finding them prospects, open source vendors have barely begun this
>| process.
>|
>| You might call it Ballmer?s Revenge, because it?s Steve Ballmer who deserves
>| the credit for building this organization.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1817
>
> It's the shill-cosystem. One crook backs another for profit. The communist
> regime never mastered better lockins, but some escape it:
>
> Few UK businesses are using ERP systems, official figures show
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Research carried out for the first time ever by the Office for National
>| Statistics found that only 6.5% of 8,000 businesses surveyed were using ERP
>| systems in 2006 ? a figure that rose to 37.2% for the largest companies with
>| more than 1,000 employees.
>|
>| Weighted figures, adjusted to take account of the proportions of businesses
>| of different sizes across the UK, show that less than a third of all UK
>| companies ? 30.2% - are estimated to be using ERP systems.
> `----
>
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/enterprise/news/index.cfm?newsid=6662
Were they building such systems on non-proprietary platforms, it seems
likely that there could be far more SMBs using them, assuming, at least,
that they have any use for them at all.
They do require a good understanding of corporate processes, and also
require that a good deal of flexibility is built-in, otherwise they just
become a millstone for management, wasting far more time than they save.
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