here’s my weekly rundown of all that’s been happening in SAP Land over the last 7 days

• Alvaro Tejada (aka Blag) announces SAP Inside Track Lima, Peru. For known geographical reasons I won’t be able to make it, Blag.
• a good install guide for ABAP & Java stacks on Amazon Web Sevices (part 1).
• Oracle buys IP assets of SAP-funded Conformia: “SAP funds them, Oracle picks up the assets on the cheap. Nice system.”
• “So we will get it right, and we will take our time. Yeah, it took a little bit longer than we thought, but we can afford to.” – SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka talking to CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum on Timeless Software, Saas, The Cloud and BusinessByDesign. I do miss a little bit of bite in the questions, but Vishal seems an eloquent talker. I think though it is a little rich to say that SAP’s been in the cloud for 15 years though.
• SAP Mentor Dennis Howlett with another worthwhile contribution on ZDNet: What really happened with SAP Business bydesign? – ZDNet Blogs

here’s my Twitterverse take… some funny ones on the eternal Walldorf <-> Heidelberg debate (where shall you stay when visiting the SAP mothership?)

• @yojibee: @vlvl I usually prefer Heidelberg too, but think I might stay in WDF this time – just for the fun of it
• @vlvl: @yojibee it is rare to find “Fun” and “Walldorf” in the same sentence

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