{"id":658,"date":"2010-01-22T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"This week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! Here are my picks out of this week&#8217;s fistful of SAP stories &amp; tweetings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EU Commission gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/open_source\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222400062\">green light to Oracle for Sun aquisition<\/a>. ITPro also <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.itpro.co.uk\/~r\/ITPro\/Today\/~3\/nNvxXGBT4kQ\/anti-oracle-acquisition-campaign-moves-east\">covered<\/a> the story before the announcement and mentioned the more than 30,000 users who signed a petition to &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; (and Java?)<\/li>\n<li>SAP posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2010\/01\/21\/4582465.htm\">preliminary results for 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Community Developer Licence is <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SAPNetworkWeblogs\/~3\/iW_StG6IzJE\/17094\">available<\/a> &#8211; no more expiry dates, hurrah!<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s all happening Down Under: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SAPNetworkWeblogs\/~3\/Sx479vpqMrU\/17475\">SAP Inside Track Australia 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li>have Oracle and SAP become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/516963\/Oracle_and_SAP_Are_Big_Too_Big_for_Their_Own_Good_?page=2&amp;taxonomyId=3000\">&#8220;too big for their own good?&#8221; <\/a>asks CIO.com&#8217;s Thomas Wailgum. I&#8217;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 <em>have<\/em> become too big?<\/li>\n<li>I found this one a little gem amongst the flood of SDN blogs: SAP&#8217;s Gerald Kleser\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SAPNetworkWeblogs\/~3\/UPg9_jB77CE\/17469\">&#8220;A Timeless Software Problem&#8221;<\/a>. An excerpt: &#8220;<em>Try to find research work that tries to empirically find relationships between project success (&#8230;) on the one side and technologies or standards (&#8230;) on the other&#8230; You won\u2019t find much! The lack of hard facts leaves the job of advocating for particular technologies to the marketing departments of software tool vendors<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Twittersphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"sapnews\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','sapnews','1','8','','')\"><strong>sapnews<\/strong><\/a>: &#8220;SAP Combines CeBIT 2010 With SAP\u00ae World Tour Customer Conference:<a name=\"l\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('yojibee','8022533505','','2','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>yojibee<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"se38\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','se38','1','8','','')\">se38<\/a> LOL now you got me thinking. No Mentor shirts this year, but Mentor skirts \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('TonkaPome','7978648536','','3','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>TonkaPome<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"yojibee\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','yojibee','1','8','','')\">yojibee<\/a> @<a title=\"pixelbase\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','pixelbase','1','8','','')\">pixelbase<\/a> maybe we should all chip in, buy SAAB, then install SAP. After all, all best run businesses use SAP<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('timoelliott','8023642951','','0','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>timoelliott<\/strong><\/a>: The second SAP c-level exec on Twitter?\u00a0Oliver Bussmann, SAP CIO, @<a title=\"sapcio\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','sapcio','1','8','','')\">sapcio<\/a> &#8212; welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! Here are my picks out of this week&#8217;s fistful of SAP stories &amp; 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 &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; (and Java?) SAP posts preliminary results for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}