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On 9/7/23 02:49, Chris Travers wrote:
> An important lesson here is to always sit down with a client and 
> understand their needs before selling an ERP.......

Unless you have a legal department that will run the customer into the 
ground with litigation. In a somewhat related case:

https://www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/news-media-releases/oregon-oracle-reach-settlement-worth-more-than-100-million-in-it-modernization-and-other-benefits/

Where Oracle ended settling by paying ~$35 million in cash and ~$60 
million in credits for a failed project with the state of Oregon that 
they collected $240 million for.


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Adrian Klaver
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