Deja vu all over again
'Oracle Fusion, the cloud-based ERP system the council is moving to, "is not a product that is suitable for local authorities, because it's very much geared towards a manufacturing/trading organization"'
That was the problem with oracle's erp modules back in the early 90s. Sequent computers were the driving use case early on (almost exactly unlike nearly every other enterprise scenario, like food manufacturing, or publishing, or ...) and it was very difficult to get beyond that mind-set. Well, that plus the fact that the various modules were developed largely in isolation, eg customers and suppliers were two completely separate things, which was fine until your customer was also a supplier, when it was a major headache.
And here are 30 years later...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
