I had lunch with my wife this week (a rarity with my travels). Sure enough we saw a newspaper and we started reading it, and she remarked "wow, Iraq is not on the front page". We don't agree on Iraq, but her statement was striking. And I commented - good, let them work something out and then the papers can report it rather than the continuing negative items.
Reading the posts from SAP's analyst summit from fellow Irregulars - Dennis, Jeff, Jason, Dan I think it may be time to embargo news for SAP also. It's just lots of big ticket/low payback projects (SOA, Compliance, Duet), fixation (on Oracle), self-delusion (Shai saying SAP will have 10,000 customers on SOA by end 2007, compared to 400 today; Peter Graf suggesting there are no integration costs around SAP. News to SAP's not-so-small SI ecosystem).
In the new year, I am going to de-emphasize blogging about SAP (and Oracle) till they start to show tangible progress on innovations, vertical functionality, pricing and TCO, SaaS, SMEs ... I am sure they will appreciate my not using up the various translations of The Pot and Kettle I had planned to use, thanks to contributions from readers from around the world.
