Here’s a run-down of what I thought was noticable in SAP Land in the last 7 days:

• European Commission approves SAP acquisition of Sybase
• interesting analysis by Panorama Consulting’s Eric Kimberling. He’s posted a functional comparison of SAP v Oracle. The two packages are closer together in customer evaluation than one thinks.
• Jarret Pazahanick with an interesting and popular SDN blog on Five Ways Twitter will Help your SAP Career – well spotted stuff. Many people still underestimate the power of Twitter in the professional space.
• SAP’s Craig Cmehil starts the TechEd Demo Jam Submission Countdown
• a funky and groovy ByDesign video by SAP to dazzle the masses
• CIO’s Thomas Wailgum sees SAP in danger to make the same mistakes with ByDesign as with TomorrowNow. He has a point, but have a look in the comments to see my view on it (apologies for the dreadful layout!).
• SAPience aka Helmuth Guembel fears a wave of custom-built enterprise “Tamagochis” on mobile devices.
• Enterprise IT veteran Joshua Greenbaum on “How to make money in the cloud (…)” says, “Smart and savvy won’t be interested in volume, IMO”. One interesting observation here is that he sees the BYD SDK as a clear advantage for BYD over competitor products.

some good ones in this week’s Twitter category, me thinks:

• thorstenster: Just parked on SAP’s board & CEO reserved spaces in front of WDF01. Security greeted me on my way to the door. Quick!
• thorstenster: @pixelbase Driving Larry and Hasso reminds me of the riddle where you row a wolf, a sheep, and a salad across the river. Larry’s the salad. (nb on the same topic!)
• se38: RT @martin_english: RT @micdoane: “Only two major industries, one of which is illegal, refer to their ultimate customers as users. “
• welshcathy: Interesting – just seen self referencing DDIC table type definition bring down an entire SAP system!
• SAPinsider: Today’s IT joke: A software engineer is smoking. When a lady points at the health warning, he replies, “We care about errors, not warnings!”

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