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An interesting article in CIO Magazine (http://www.cio.com/article/177300/Why_ERP_Systems_Are_More_Important_Than_Ever).

“More than 85 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their ERP systems were essential to the core of their businesses, and that they ‘could not live without them.'”

But what jumped out at me were the numbers related to ERP market share.  Besides the obvious fact that Oracle’s acquisition streak has bought it a huge market share, I’m still surprised that, according to this article, Lawson only has 6% of the market: