Single Instance Versus Web Services

by Paul Harmon

I've never been a fan of packaged applications, but I've learned to appreciate their uses. In the course of the 1990s, almost every Fortune 1000 company invested in SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Baan, or Oracle packages. Most did so for the wrong reason. They were afraid their legacy applications would shut down on 1 January 2000, and they decided that buying packaged applications was the easiest way to ensure that their applications were Y2K-compliant.

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Single Instance Versus Web Services 10 December 2003