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>I check that continuously and frankly all the web apps I've seen so far are horizontal like CRM, time tracking and so forth.
>Serious vertical ERPs address a market segment too narrow to finance a full Web-app rewrite with the tech stack you mention.
>This is just unreal.
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I specialize in ERP and I agree with that, Thierry.
I think the reason is pretty simple- mobility - the main benefit of web apps- is not usually required for back office systems- and as we've seen in this thread, desktop apps are a lot easier and cheaper to develop and maintain and they're more secure.

By switching the back ends to SQL Server a long time ago, we've made it easier to develop web based apps for specific functions, like pickup and delivery processes, while the basic systems remain on the desktop.

That said, many small businesses here are using QB on line.
They are paying most of their bills without writing checks and are being invoiced electronically. They rarely use paper.
They use their real time access to banking systems to know minute by minute exactly what their cash positions are, so they rarely look at their accounting systems.
Like the DBase users of the early 1980's some of those small companies will grow and influence how business is conducted on a larger scale.