Welcome back! Here are my picks out of this week’s fistful of SAP stories & tweetings.

• EU Commission gives green light to Oracle for Sun aquisition. ITPro also covered the story before the announcement and mentioned the more than 30,000 users who signed a petition to “Help MySQL” (and Java?)
• SAP posts preliminary results for 2009
• New Community Developer Licence is available – no more expiry dates, hurrah!
• it’s all happening Down Under: SAP Inside Track Australia 2010
• have Oracle and SAP become “too big for their own good?” asks CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum. I’m not entirely sure of the relevance here, as you could say this about any big conglomerate or concern. Also: what would be the alternatives and repercussions if they indeed have become too big?
• I found this one a little gem amongst the flood of SDN blogs: SAP’s Gerald Kleser “A Timeless Software Problem”. An excerpt: “Try to find research work that tries to empirically find relationships between project success (…) on the one side and technologies or standards (…) on the other… You won’t find much! The lack of hard facts leaves the job of advocating for particular technologies to the marketing departments of software tool vendors.”

Twittersphere

sapnews: “SAP Combines CeBIT 2010 With SAP® World Tour Customer Conference:

yojibee: @se38 LOL now you got me thinking. No Mentor shirts this year, but Mentor skirts 😉

TonkaPome: @yojibee @pixelbase maybe we should all chip in, buy SAAB, then install SAP. After all, all best run businesses use SAP

timoelliott: The second SAP c-level exec on Twitter? Oliver Bussmann, SAP CIO, @sapcio — welcome!