This week’s top news/blog posts:
- another chapter: SAP denies liability in TomorrowNow lawsuit
- what are non-german and non-austrian SAP customers are going to do? – SAP suspends price hike – if you’re German or Austrian!
- Leo Apotheker interviewed by Charlie Rose
- the Economist with some interesting insights into Leo Apotheker’s life and SAP’s co-CEO system.
- Total Telecom: SAP ranked no 1 for strategic positioning
- Accounting scandal at outsourcer Satyam. A lot of companies using SAP system which are supported by Satyam will watch this one closely…
SAP Twitter Picks:
- @scobleizer: “(…) Enterprise 2.0 is a new range of services that build social collaboration in from the start. SAP? No. socialtext? Yes.”
- @ITSinsider: “ironically, SAP “gets” e20 better than most, as evidenced by its large communities. just hasn’t incorporated social into its sw.”
- @jonerp: “While SAP is asking for a jury trial, still expect settlement. SAP and Oracle in high stakes card game, Oracle with better hand this time.” (on Oracle-SAP lawsuit)
- @erickimberling: “Downward trends in ERP sales require software vendors to prove the measurable value of their solutions.”
- @MyCustomer: “Could SAP cause a rift in its customer base by exempting Germany and Austria from it’s pricier support programme?”
- @thomas_jung: “(…) SE16N (despite the N) was created by FI and not Basis – so not intended as a replacement for SE16” (on a question regarding SAP’s data query transaction SE16)
- @yojibee: “(…) but not that I would want to give SAP my open source code to maintain” (with regards to Leo Apotheker’s open source statements during the Charlie Rose interview)
- @vchalana: “heard that Satyam is one of the biggest SAP consulting shops in India. India SAP job boards are flooded with resumes of Satyam employees.”