As SAP Land was catching its breath after TechEd, the Walldorf company  unleashed Q3 results on us. Apparently another company claims they’re already “running smarter” and “better” and what have you. Find out what it’s all about and make up your own mind. As usual, a list of totally personal SAP impressions below…

• There have been plenty of SAP Q3 2010 results comments. One summary to read certainly is the one by Gartner’s Thomas Otter: “The anti-Oracle posturing has its place on earning calls, and trading taunts makes for good headlines. Nevertheless, it is not nearly as relevant for SAP customers as many observers think.”
• Dennis Howlett’s AccMan blog with a SAP ByDesign perspective on development (and a link to yours truly).
• CIO’s Chris Kanaracus sheds light on the fact that SAP is now getting sued over the “Running Smarter” campaign by Laserfiche, a content management and document imaging software vendor. Ever tried to google “Running Smarter”? Laserfiche is hit no. 14 indeed… Ouch!
• “RIA is dead – Adobe MAX 2010“, says Enterprise Irregluar Michael Coté in his roundup of Adobe’s annual event. I like Michael’s writing style. A must read if that’s your field of focus.
• Thomas Wailgum tries to bring some clarity to the war of words between SAP, Oracle and (by proxy) HP due to Larry Ellison’s comments with regards to Leo Apotheker’s rise to the HP throne. Dennis Howlett thinks that Oracle sees HP as the ultimate prize.
• Facts, Speculation and Conclusion. Ethan Jewett takes a minute and tries to disect the different “In-Memory” keywords, areas and definitions.
• Abdulbasit Gulsen’s callout for SAP Inside Track Istanbul to all interested folks
• German Silicon.de reports on a bullish SAP Services market. (english version here)
• update:  Jon Reed’s interview with Leonardo de Araujo on BYD SDK impressions

a quick stop at Twitterverse central…

• @esjewett: Just did a quick BPC NW forum pass-through. Every few weeks a new batch of ‘consultants’ posts the same basic questions. Pity the clients
• @jpennikhof: @yojibee @pixelbase @thorstenster Maybe Silverlight is not dead but just “mature”? 😉 (Jan commenting on recent Silverlight rumours in the light of NW AS Java announcements)