SAP vs. Oracle, Battle Royale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 6, 2006 @05:36PM from the bruised-but-not-beaten dept.

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."

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Re:wow by al_broccoli · 2006-03-07 01:27 · Score: 2, Informative

It takes more effort and man hours to customise and install these products than is does to write an equivalent system inhouse, and, then you pay license fees.
Wow, that's such impressive FUD. Do you work for Microsoft?

My team of 12 (internal employees, not consultants) can have a freshly installed system (takes me 1 day to install) configured in under a month. You couldn't write a product in any language or tool with the same number of people in under 2 years. And even then, it would be cripped compared to SAP's ERP product.