Hi Bill,

FoxInCloud usages confirm your observations: top 2 are mobility (mainly field services, no sales forces yet) and 3rd parties (customers and suppliers).

We also have ERPs running 100% web-based, end to end: order input, product sheets, production, invoicing, accounting, etc. - no more desktop users.

>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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