Who, Me? Another Monday is upon us and The Register therefore presents a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed confessional column in which you admit to making mistakes, and explain how you made it out alive afterwards.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Holden” who told us a tale from a time his employer “had just gone through implementation hell for a shiny new ERP system.”

“We went down the 'managed build' route with the software provider and the project overran by 12 months,” he lamented.

The result was a system Holden described as “quite buggy” and lacking sophisticated reporting tools.

”For more intricate report extraction we needed to use direct SQL access on the database,” he told Who, Me?

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, about six months into o

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