I was trying to encompass everything from a Drupal customisation (https://drupal.org/drupal-services) where there are plenty of 3rd party providers. Through custom database programs as tailored by the original developers, the sort of thing that are hidden behind point of sale terminals or you see at your Doctors or Dentists etc. And finally to the potential to code a replacement for SAP.

The UK is littered with companies doing such things (how many have moved to free software I don't know). Many, many companies rely on such software for their core business. All of them I've seen could be done with e.g. a LAMPP or Zope intranet server. If Magic Banana is right and free software isn't making inroads into this then we are missing a very lucrative, if less sexy, trick.

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