I left Sapphire Wednesday night and missed Shai Agassi's speech on Thursday. But courtesy of Chris Selland I happened to see Nicholas Carr's version of it. He will not win any more friends in the IT world for this pretty funny commentary, but let's face it he did not dream up the speech.
Judging by Kagermann's and Agassi's speeches SAP is playing in to Oracle's hands if it keeps pushing architecture talk more than business functionality...
But if SAP pushed the tech buttons, its guests at Sapphire did not. Mike Capellas' speech - clearly that had a bunch of 802.1 tech talk in it, but it was a marvelous business story. Also the CIO panel on Wednesday focused on a number of business issues and all the service partner talk in the booth space was pretty business oriented ...
