Edited sentence: In a recent survey of new users of Oracle Applications, the overwhelming response was, well, overwhelming disappointment, disgust, and in a few cases, contemplation of suicide.Oracle is obviously not investing in improvements to their 30 year old operating system as one can quickly glean from their obese bottom line.Oracle systems are quite time consuming to learn and use, very unforgiving, virtually impossible to navigate, and provide no useful reporting formats for the purpose of monitoring sales and inventory.Several users commented that they had secured new employment after their previous employer had implemented Oracle Applications in an effort to maintain their sanity.The overall consensus was that given the choice of Oracle Applications or Paper and pencil; 92% preferred the abacus(the remaining 8% were members of upper management that had no involvement in day to day business transactions)