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SAP vs. Oracle, Battle Royale
Mark Brunelli writes "As the battle for business application supremacy heats up, Oracle users are standing by Larry Ellison and Fusion while SAP customers say NetWeaver will lead the way to victory." From the article: "Zoellner, who says he has worked with both Oracle and SAP users throughout his career, believes that the Nucleus Research study cited by deHenry is right on in its conclusion that Oracle's average three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) is 48% lower than SAP's. The business analyst said that the TCO issue is particularly important to companies in developing areas."
2. A small, blunt object used as a weapon, often constructed from a bag filled with loose, heavy objects such as lead shot or coins.
5. Colloquially, a sap is a weak or gullible person. Also known as dupe; see confidence trick.
SAP and Oracle will resolve it once and for all by putting Japanese schoolboys and girls on an island and letting them fight it out? CooL!
Always? Thanks for that, Mr 700,000+.
Until now I was sure that the only thing with a higher TCO than Oracle was a Sea Stallion helicopter (38 hours of maintenance required for every hour of flight). I guess I never thought about SAP TCO because most of the SAP rollouts I heard about failed.
Those projects are so incredibly expensive, I have no idea what kind of scale they use to calculate the TCO. Teradollars? I can imagine a board meeting (CIO: "Hey guys, we must make room for 317 Teradollars in the next budget for this SAP thingy. So I guess we'll have to forget about the Winzip licenses for now.").
Seriously, a friend of mine is convinced that SAP is part of a secret plan to crush the western economy.
lucm, indeed.