__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 29 March 2007 21:11 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Executive departs software maker SAP
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Business software maker SAP AG said Wednesday top executive Shai Agassi,
>>| once considered a potential successor to Chief Executive Henning
>>| Kagermann, would leave the firm to pursue interests in alternative energy
>>| and environmental policy.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_bi_ge/germany_sap
>>
>> Those who have read about Agassi before would know he's quite the Ballmer
>> of the CRM sector.
>>
>>
>> Yesterday:
>>
>> 'Boring' SAP Dismisses Open Source Threat
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Several factors will help protect SAP's ERP market share from open
>>| source, Kagermann said.
>>|
>>| He believes the boredom factor will be one of them, suggesting that
>>| open source developers like to work on "fun" projects, adding
>>| improvements that they can boast about.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=957082A8%2DB43F%2D44B8%2DA0CC%2D29CFA8CF468F
>
> Ah, that old argument again. This argument was used to "prove" that
> there would never be an open-source GUI of any quality or capability.
> Erik was one of the people who used to spout it a lot. It was quite
> wrong then, of course, indeed, history has proven it to be wrong, and is
> just as wrong now. Basing your business strategy on how you think a
> programmer might be motivated seems more than a little naive, so I
> presume SAP have some other strategy which they've yet to reveal.
Here's what I said when I initially posted this:
"Suppose Mr. Kagermann has not yet heard of commercial Open Source software,
which can be downloaded and installed for free. It relies on support,
services, and setup. There is plenty of financial software that is platform
independent and Open Source nowadays. It benefits from patches contributed
by users, so development and testing is fast."
The same goes for Red Hat, Novell, Xen, the Linux Foundation... they have
money circulating. People are being paid to work on Free software --
esentially writing code that they can take home at the end of the day (and
even fork some time in the future, or take to a different company).
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