SAP announced yesterday a drastic 50% price cut for its SDN Subscription packages. Find further info and opinion and the package here. In its announcement, Claudine Lagerholm Sr. Product Manager, SDN Subscriptions, explains:

As you are all aware, the economic landscape has changed very drastically in the last few months, so we’ve decided now was a good time to adjust the pricing.  The goal here is to make the full NetWeaver platform much more accessible and affordable to developers right now, not at some point in the future.

On the whole a very good move by SAP, enabling more developers to gain access to the full dev suite at a much reduced price and offering full support (incl SAP Net ID) for it. The only remaining fly in the ointment now is the restriction to Germany and the US…