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There's an important conference taking place in Brussels next week: "Tensions between Intellectual Property Rights and the ICT sta...

Readers with a taste for high comedy may remember my post “Why SAP is Such a Sap over Software Patents”, which rather took to task a certain...

There's some interesting turbulence in the blogosphere about the following call from Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) o...

For an outfit that calls itself “the world's largest business software company”, the German software giant SAP is relatively little-know...

I don't normally comment on rumours, but this one is too plausible : Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said specul...

What is going through the mind of SAP? These people are *promoting* your products: Business Objects claims that no one can use a Crystal R...

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Erwin Tenhumberg has been one of the closest observers of OpenOffice.org's growing strength. So his announcement that he is moving fro...

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As I've lamented before, open source usage in China is hard for us outside to gauge. Even the open source structures there are difficul...

Oh yeah. Pity about the asteroid , though....

Hm, were this not on the European Patent Office's own site, I might have doubted its authenticity: Where do we stand in the discussion ...

SAP AG will not be impacted by open source ERP software, chief executive Henning Kagermann is adamant. Despite evidence of open source creep...

SAP is a strange company. Largely unknown to the general public (at least outside its native Germany), it is large, and until now, hugely s...