{"id":1132,"date":"2010-11-29T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoidgallery.com\/images\/frickin%2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/>This edition of TWiS is actually put together while I&#8217;m watching SAP Mentor Monday, a special edition for the unveiling of Hugh MacLeod&#8217;s &#8220;Freaking (Fucking) Amazing&#8221; picture in a SAP main meeting area in Palo Alto.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, we&#8217;ve obviously still had some fallout from the SAP\/Oracle TomorrowNow case. Are these two items linked? Maybe they are&#8230; maybe the ruling -despite whether SAP appeals or not- will spur them on to be even more &#8220;freaking amazing&#8221;. I&#8217;m getting carried away.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It certainly was the week of the SAP\/Oracle roundups. Some a more worthwhile read than others. I won&#8217;t talk about the latter, so let&#8217;s start with CIO&#8217;s Thomas Wailgum, who <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/14568\/oracle_v_sap_justice_and_1_3_billion_delivered?source=rss_Blogs_and_Discussion_Enterprise_Software_Unplugged\">writes<\/a>: &#8220;<em>Justice is supposed to be blind, but public opinion certainly isn&#8217;t. While SAP might have more likeability than does Oracle, it doesn&#8217;t absolve SAP executives from paying for their sins.<\/em>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>I also liked <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gartner.com\/thomas_otter\/2010\/11\/25\/oer-lawyers-fingers-who-straight-dream-on-fees\/\">Thomas Otter&#8217;s shakespearean take on the TomorrowNow ruling<\/a>: &#8220;<em>Coming out of this, I\u2019d hope that software developers think a little bit more about intellectual property and IT law generally.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerwoche.de\/software\/erp\/2358706\/\">interesting Computerwoche article by PAC&#8217;s Tobias Ortwein<\/a> nudges the topic a little more towards the difference between US and continental european IP culture (english version\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/FeedingTheSapEcosystem\/~3\/sQ37Jbvx1B0\/how-to-be-billionaire-comment-on.html\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Seeking Alpha&#8217;s Dennis Byron continues his SAP bish-bash-bosh and drowns a few SAP follower kittens by <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/239108-sap-needs-some-shai-agassi-style-global-thinking-now?source=yahoo\">aiming at Shai Agassi<\/a>, but praises him for his work re the Netweaver platform. Huh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/zdnet\/Howlett\/~3\/M03DxzYWnrU\/2651\">Dennis Howlett <\/a>spotted a reinvigoration of the maintenance topic during his visit at the SAP UK &amp; Ireland user group.<\/li>\n<li>RedMonk&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/JamesGovernorsMonkchips\/~3\/XwKaoCEb4ls\/\">James Governor with an excellent piece<\/a> on openness, HTML5, news firewalls and the power of developers. He links to Apple Enterprise page and its strange statement (which always puzzled me) and -most of all- he mentions &#8220;Die Zeit&#8221;, my favourite Online and Print paper.<\/li>\n<li>oh, and did you know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/22329%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\">&#8220;River is out and available&#8221;<\/a>. Ethan Jewett&#8217;s comment says it all&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.de\/technologie\/software\/0,39044013,41541378,00\/sap_spass_in_spaetestens_sieben_minuten.htm\">Silicon.de&#8217;s take on Snabe speech<\/a> during SAP UK&amp;I conference in Manchester: &#8220;Fun in less than 7 minutes&#8221;. Yes, he&#8217;s still talking SAP (english translation <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silicon.de%2Ftechnologie%2Fsoftware%2F0%2C39044013%2C41541378%2C00%2Fsap_spass_in_spaetestens_sieben_minuten.htm\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-750\" title=\"twitter_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>If I can tweet it there, I&#8217;ll tweet it &#8211; anywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanGenez\/status\/9248805811650561&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;http:\/\/twitter.com\/SAP\/status\/7518822361735169&#8243;] <em>was that really a response?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This edition of TWiS is actually put together while I&#8217;m watching SAP Mentor Monday, a special edition for the unveiling of Hugh MacLeod&#8217;s &#8220;Freaking (Fucking) Amazing&#8221; picture in a SAP main meeting area in Palo Alto. In other news, we&#8217;ve obviously still had some fallout from the SAP\/Oracle TomorrowNow case. Are these two items linked? 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