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kram8on Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

Even Microsoft runs SAP Finance and Microsoft has a lot of ERP/Finance knowledge in house. I guess building a system that supports the scale and specific accounting standards all over the world is a non trivial task.

I work in Enterprise Software and I have experienced multiple times that tech companies first tried to build an administrative back office system and came back to the market two years later as the underestimated the complexity.

kram8on Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

https://twitter.com/dbmoore/status/1379197531284926464?s=21

kram8on Bullying bosses negatively impact employee performance and behavior

Who would need a study to state the obvious? In which Universe is a bullying boss help a company? The only example that comes to my mind is when a corporation wants to reduce workforce but doesn’t want to pay severance pay. But this puts people’s health at risk and who in his right mind could want this? I’m working for a SaaS company who takes very much care of its employees and I’m asking myself if I am just naive...

kram8on Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

HANA was in the first instance a in memory database - at least partly invented by SAP. Because SAP marketing pushed "in memory" so much, all of the SAP employees believed that HANA was the solution to all problems with SAP software. Therefore SAP named all of its products SAP HANA .... Like SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, etc. Those products were not even related to the in memory database. It's all marketing bullshit and SAP has even taken a few steps back as too many customers were disappointed.

Ultimately I think the HANA database is an overhyped in-memory database. The reason they make money with HANA is that they are successfully replacing Oracle Databases for their SAP on-premise customers.

kram8on Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

That’s nice! Does anyone already have an example to just add Windows like ALT + Tab like behavior? Thx!

kram8on Windows Phone overtakes Blackberry in the U.S

But - Windows Phone is no winner in the US mobile device market... yet.

kram8on VMware Buys AirWatch for $1.54 Billion

From my point of view MDM is more and more getting legacy and most corporations have already chosen a MDM platform, MobileIron has to hurry to find a vendor who is late to this market - like Microsoft maybe?

kram8on German politician meets with Snowden in Moscow

German media/politics currently discusses if Snowden should be offered asylum in Germany. With every new speculation on the whole spying affair, offering Snowden asylum gets more popular in Germany.

kram8on How Samsung is out-innovating Apple

This article is really not worth reading - it has no content which is worth the time reading. Only the information that "Samsung is innovating at a faster pace than Apple can" without any evidence of this statement.