Monday, April 24, 2006
SAP CEO says company signed 40 'safe passage' deals - MarketWatch
SAP CEO says company signed 40 'safe passage' deals - MarketWatch: "Software maker SAP AG (SAP) has signed 40 deals in the first quarter of 2006, under its Safe Passage program, Chief Executive Henning Kagermann said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg-TV.
The program is aimed at wooing away customers from SAP's closest rival U.S.-based Oracle Corp. (ORCL).
In March, SAP said that more than 200 companies 'have taken Safe Passage to SAP' since it launched the program in January 2005, including German chemicals company Altana Chemie AG and pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals of the U.S. "
The program is aimed at wooing away customers from SAP's closest rival U.S.-based Oracle Corp. (ORCL).
In March, SAP said that more than 200 companies 'have taken Safe Passage to SAP' since it launched the program in January 2005, including German chemicals company Altana Chemie AG and pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals of the U.S. "
