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SAP United States - SAP Unveils SDN Subscriptions Program for Developers: "The SDN subscriptions program is planned to be made available through the SAP Developer Network site (sdn.sap.com), the central resource for the technical community within the SAP ecosystem, and is intended to include the lean, standards-based SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, which is already offered as a preview to partners for building and running composite applications (see related announcement from SAP TechEd ’06 Las Vegas, titled “SAP Previews Next-Generation Composition Capabilities for Partners”). In addition to SAP NetWeaver development and composition tools, the subscriptions program is intended to include access to technical support, premium content and online access for testing enterprise services. This is planned to be in addition to the tools, forums and resources available today at no cost to all registered users of SDN—including free trial downloads of SAP NetWeaver.
The SDN subscriptions program is targeted to go live in 2007. Additional uses of the SAP software, including commercialization and production use, are subject to additional agreements."