Microsoft sued over web patent, mice
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| The firm also alleges that Microsoft keyboards like the desktop
| 4000 and 8000 use wheels which infringe F&G technology.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39073
Well, that's what Microsoft lobbies for. Patenting mice. They sit in a puddle
of mud of their own making.
Mixed messages in SAP earnings
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| Total sales rose 6 percent to $2.95 billion, missing market expectations,
| and net profit rose 10 percent to $421.17 million. The operating margin,
| which SAP says will dip to 26 percent 27 percent this year, was 20
| percent.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6177859.html
Related:
The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
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| Open source software has enabled large system integrators to increase
| their profits through cost savings and reach more customers due to
| flexible pricing. This has upset existing ecosystems and shuffled
| structural relationships, resulting in the emergence of firms
| providing consulting services to open source projects. This new
| breed of service firm in turn lives or dies by its ability to
| recruit and retain appropriate talent.
|
| For such talent, in particular for software developers, life has
| become more difficult and exciting at once. Developers face new
| career prospects and paths, since their formal position in an open
| source project, in addition to their experience and capabilities,
| determines their value to an employer. Economically rational
| developers strive to become committers to high-profile open source
| projects to further their careers, which in turn generates more
| recognition, independence, and job security.
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http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007-article.html
Executive departs software maker SAP
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| 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.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_bi_ge/germany_sap
'Boring' SAP Dismisses Open Source Threat
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| 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.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=957082A8%2DB43F%2D44B8%2DA0CC%2D29CFA8CF468F
SAP misses targets, gives hazy outlook
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| The German software group, which shocked investors by announcing
| earlier this month that it had missed its 2006 license sales target,
| said it would no longer forecast license revenues due to changing
| sales models.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6152809.html
SAP takes a tumble
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| SAP shares fell sharply after the software company admitted it had
| missed sales targets for 2006. Its shares on the New York Stock
| Exchange ended the day down ten per cent.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/sap_misses_street/
SAP is keeping a close eye on open source
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| "SAP must be prepared for the next big technology, and that
| could be open-source software," Jollans said. "IT is changing
| very fast. Big players like SAP can be beaten by companies with
| new ideas. SAP knows this."
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/061108sapopen/page_1.html
SAP Co-Founder Assists Open Source Start-ups
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| SAP AG co-founder Hasso Plattner is using some of his considerable
| wealth to help open source start-ups get in front of venture
| capitalists in order to raise funding for their new business ideas.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01112006/221/sap-co-founder-assists-open-source-start-ups.html
SAP Cofounder Backs New Open Source Forum
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| Hasso Plattner, the billionaire cofounder of business software maker SAP,
| has teamed with IBM and Deutsche Telekom to host a forum aimed at giving
| open-source software entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their business
| ideas to venture capitalists and other IT experts.
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http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=26091
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