Financial Times

SAP reshapes strategy for online software
June 10, 2009

... "It's absolutely essential for SAP - if they don't make a viable play in the on-demand world, they will be completely overwhelmed by it," said Josh Greenbaum, an analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting.
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Business Week

What Oracle Sees in Sun
April 21 , 2009

If Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has his way, Sun's Java language will become a strong revenue source and lock in customers for years to come
Over the past 13 years, Sun Microsystems' Java language has become one of the computer industry's best known brands—and underappreciated assets.
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The Economist

CORPORATE IT
Creating the Cumulus
October 23, 2008

Software will be transformed into a combination of services

Even the biggest changes in IT have never spelt the death of anything, notes Josh Greenbaum of Enterprise Applications Consulting. IBM, for instance, is still making money with mainframes.
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The New York Times

SHIFT AT THE TOP EMPHASIZES SAP'S BOTTOM LINE
August 25, 2008

WALLDORF, Germany — Henning Kagermann wants you to know that he is more than just a software geek.

Mr. Kagermann, the longtime chief executive of SAP, the giant maker of complex computer applications for business, is in the middle of a slow transition in which he will yield the top job entirely to Léo Apotheker, now the co-chief executive, in March. Mr. Apotheker rose through the ranks of the SAP sales force, a notably different career path than Mr. Kagermann, a former physics professor who made his name as a developer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/technology/25sap.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

EAC GOES INTERNATIONAL....


Financial Times Germany

Personaldebatte in Walldorf

Eigentlich gibt es bei SAP genug zu tun: Zukäufe integrieren, neue Software etablieren. Doch Fragezeichen hinter einigen Vorständen lenken die Aufmerksamkeit davon ab.
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SAP und Oracle wetteifern um Zukäufe

Oracle habe am Dienstag einen Brief mit einem entsprechenden Vorschlag bei BEAs Aufsichtsrat abgeben lassen, teilte Oracle am Freitag mit. Der Konzern, dessen letztendlich erfolgreiches Kaufangebot für Peoplesoft vor vier Jahren ein erbittertes und 18 Monate andauerndes Gezerre ausgelöst hatte, freue sich darauf "so schnell wie möglich eine freundliche Transaktion abzuwickeln", betonte Oracle-Präsident Charles Phillips in einer Mitteilung.
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