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Related Links: "Is Carly Toast Yet?" - Maureen O'Gara on HP's Fiorina, Three Years On HP Falls, Dell Shines HP's profit shortfall warning last week made mention of the problems the company had experienced combining two SAP systems, one belonging to HP and the other to Compaq, the company it acquired two years ago. Now Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz has taken up the theme, exploiting the fact that the industry may be puzzled what HP's problem is since HP and Compaq both ran back-office software made by the same company. "HP's problem? It ain't the SAP install," blogs Schwartz. "And it's not related to the cancellation of PA-RISC, or weakness in their Itanium transition. Or even Dell's printer onslaught." Here is Schwartz's diagnosis: "To me, HP's problems spawn from the death of... their operating system, HP/UX. Like IBM, they've elected to ask their customer... (more)

SAP "Moving Faster Than Java Was 10 Years Ago," Says Agassi

Former Sun Java executive George Paolini was in the audience, now an SAP employee. Along with several partner executives, the respective CEOs of SAP AG and SAP America, and a couple hundred reporters and analyst, he was attending an SAP briefing at Sapphire '05 in Boston. He didn't dispute the assertion, by SAP AG Executive Board Member Shai Agassi that SAP was now "moving faster than Java was 10 years ago." Agassi's broad statement was in line with the company's position that it represents "the next big thing" in IT, just as Java was hailed as a transformational technology that... (more)

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Talend Partners With Pipeline Software to Deliver Data Integration Solution for SAP Users

Talend announced that Pipeline Software has signed a strategic partnership within the Talend Alliance Program. Under the terms of the agreement, the optimized interoperability between Talend's open source data integration technologies and Pipeline Software’s Transporter solution will allow customers to integrate data between SAP and other business-critical applications. SAP is a highly successful but complex system that presents many challenges to companies wishing to integrate it with other systems. Talend has joined forces with Pipeline Software to ease the burden of com... (more)

SAP Takes Big Strides in Small Business and Midmarket Segments

SAP announced growing adoption of its business software among small businesses and midsize companies across all regions, and in particular from  growing economies as Brazil, China, India and Russia. The company's portfolio of business software for small businesses and midsize companies -- comprised of SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business All-in-One -- continues to attract an increasing number of customers from the small and midsize market. Currently at about 75 percent of the company's overall customer base, the number of small and midsize enterprise (SME) c... (more)