Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Line56.com: SAP Unhappy with Indian Trends
Line56.com: SAP Unhappy with Indian Trends: "Not long ago, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann told the Financial Times Deutschland that 'India is beginning to get expensive.'
More recently, SAP COO Leo Apotheker told the media that, in his opinion, the enterprise applications giant expects a global software competitor to arise from China, not India, which he classed as going in the direction of services more than software.
Taken together, these statements reflect SAP's growing regard for China, both because of its intellectual resources (Apotheker apparently believes that China will, within the next few years, develop a software giant that will prove more of a threat than Oracle) and its lower cost."
More recently, SAP COO Leo Apotheker told the media that, in his opinion, the enterprise applications giant expects a global software competitor to arise from China, not India, which he classed as going in the direction of services more than software.
Taken together, these statements reflect SAP's growing regard for China, both because of its intellectual resources (Apotheker apparently believes that China will, within the next few years, develop a software giant that will prove more of a threat than Oracle) and its lower cost."
