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- SAP News Room: SAP to acquire Sybase, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Heise.de sees SAP pushing onto Oracle’s patch<\/a> (english translation here<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Deal Architect’s (Vinnie Mirchandani) first<\/a> and later<\/a> reaction. On the whole, he says that SAP probably had already enough on its plate, but senses a lot of buzz (similar to the Business Objects acquisition). He’ll encounter SAP’s statement of “Sybase is about customer choice” with a question about incorporation Zoho, Netsuite and Rimini at next week’s Sapphire press conference. Let’s see what they’re going to say.<\/li>\n
- Several blogs chimed in with what I see as the most important outcome from all this: clarity. I remember walking around the stalls at the last TechEd and speaking to the Skys and Sybases etc of this world. It was like a game of Mikado<\/a> – everyone tried to stay in the game without making a hash of it and clinging on to what they’ve got. The Sybase acquisition “reduces options” in a good way (Forrester’s Stefan Ried)<\/a>. The blogs I found which emphasised this were: William Newman’s “View from the C-Level”<\/a>, and John Appleby’s blog on SDN<\/a> (another new SAP Mentor!).<\/li>\n
- CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum thinks “SAP stays classy”<\/a> and I do agree with him. Whilst others<\/a> like Bob Warfield seem to think that SAP just wanted to make a big splash (“This deal is a classic example of a wounded elephant crashing through the jungle”…), I think it is clear that Sybase was a clearly thought through, carefully executed move.<\/li>\n
- analysts and pundits seemed to be quieter on the In-Memory-Ambitions that SAP links to the acquisition. Dennis Howlett gives his view<\/a> (amongst other things) here, remaining slightly unconvinced, citing an example of a recent Deutsche Bank announcement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- A good article by Panorama Consulting’s Lena Laakso on Overcoming ERP Project Fatigue<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- rather strange post in InformationWeek talking about the “SAP Recession”<\/a>. I guess we all agree that BI has had an effect (or maybe IT in general?), what about electronics or mathematics? Fine. Let’s all agree it’s been a “human kind induced recession” then.<\/li>\n
- Ann Rosenberg, SAP, announces the new .<\/li>\n
- SAP’s latest Sustainability Report<\/a> went live.<\/li>\n
- Craig Cmehil with a little more detail on Innojagd<\/a>, SAP’s new innovation initiative<\/li>\n
- Jon Reed with a great podcast on “SAP Soft Skills <\/a>– Myth vs Reality”. Accompanied by the magnificent Guy Couillard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Vendorprisey<\/a>: Early call on SAP licensing challenges. SAP product naming is confusing and frustrating.<\/li>\n
- chriskanaracus<\/a>: Business ByDesign interface is more colorful than before, but still won’t be mistaken for a Wii game or anything<\/li>\n
- steverumsby<\/a>: Stupid Java stack. Whoever in SAP thought this was a good idea? Please can everyone go back to coding in ABAP?<\/li>\n
- z_basis_adm<\/a>: @steverumsby SAP on Java makes me laugh. Tons of useless logs. Really poor memory management. Apps that just die without gening errors. Fun! (in response to @steverumsby<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- chriskanaracus<\/a>: Business ByDesign interface is more colorful than before, but still won’t be mistaken for a Wii game or anything<\/li>\n
- rather strange post in InformationWeek talking about the “SAP Recession”<\/a>. I guess we all agree that BI has had an effect (or maybe IT in general?), what about electronics or mathematics? Fine. Let’s all agree it’s been a “human kind induced recession” then.<\/li>\n
- Heise.de sees SAP pushing onto Oracle’s patch<\/a> (english translation here<\/a>)<\/li>\n