SAP plans to celebrate HANA’s first anniversary next week.
Wait a minute – first anniversary?
At SapphireNow 3 years ago, Dr. Hasso Plattner’s entire keynote focused on in-memory analytics. Of course, he hedged “that's me as a professor talking. I am not committing SAP to any schedule”
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple recently said they would become more secretive about new product information. In the enterprise world, we have the opposite - soft launches, elongated beta releases, multi-year global rollouts. Those old enough, remember we used to call it “vaporware” - product announcements way before their time.
Anyways, Donald Trump could have a really fun time pinning down exact DOB of enterprise products. Forward Looking Statements are almost as interesting as the commercial real estate agreements he reads all the time!