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Sure, but we're talking about probability here. Established enterprise products from large companies usually have a published roadmap and guaranteed support period years in advance. It may be a mediocre product, but a business knows Oracle isn't going to kill off their ERP system any time soon, and also knows the minimum sunset date for all versions and can plan updates & upgrades accordingly.


If Oracle ERP is your standard it might be hard to get anything modern. Thought experiment, for which product are you more confident about its longevity: Google Voice or Basecamp?


I'm just using Oracle ERP as an easy example. It's a spectrum though, Oracle ERP just happens to be on the far end of one side, while a < 2 year old startup or any new(ish) Google product is on the opposite end.

(Though even more established Google products that are not Search/Ads still never make it far past the middle)


How many people are buying Oracle ERP as a new purchase these days? Isn't that pretty much a legacy techology?




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