Last week, in a SAP land just a mouse click away from you…

• Mark Yolton writes about SDN passing the 2 (!) milltion member mark. Congratulations, guys!
• It doesn’t come as a surprise that at the ageing and cast-aside CeBIT 2010 Salesforce.com and Adobe representatives spoke about the “decade when enterprise software died”. The argument is not new and was also reflected in recent posts by -amongst others- Marc (End Of Software) Benioff, Vinnie Mirchandani and SAP’s Charles Zedlewski. Whilst I appreciate the long overdue look towards consumer software, I tend to agree with some of Zedlewski’s arguments. I also think that changing enterprise software and IT just for hipness sake -which is what a some of this sounds like- would be a fallacy,
• “RightNow” making a bold stand with revamped services model for its SaaS CRM suite. An attempt to push envelope on enterprise value. Frank Scavo comments: “The large vendors will look at this, see that RightNow is a relatively small company, dismiss this as a sideshow and carry on as though nothing has happened. At least in public.”
• ZDNet’s Paul Greenberg thinks that SAP has got “The Message back on Target” on Sustainability.
• By a similar token, SAP’s co-CEO Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe released an open letter, trying to bring the customers back on target.
• excellent post by Gartner’s Thomas Otter on “Excel Hell“

and Twitter strikes back…

• Z_BASIS_ADM: Working through some silliness that is SAP on windows. Kind of like putting the Porsche logo on a Volkswagon and thinking it will be fast.
• vendorprisey: Was very refreshing to hear a SAP board presentation that didn’t make any anti-oracle digs. #sapcebit
• hkisker: McDermott @ #SAP CeBIT: We will make SAP a lean co & become double digit growth again (expect +4-8% SW rev in 2010). #sapcebit
• finnern: @c821311 – Tony that stopped my breath for a second. R/2 ABAP Quick reference guide. Sweet.