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SAP boss is mooning Oracle boss again
May 21, 2013 | Author: Michael Stromann
SAP co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner is an old "friend" of Oracle boss Larry Ellison. They compete not only in the IT business but also in yacht races. Plattner, reportedly, once dropped his pants and mooned the crew of Ellison’s racing yacht when it was passing by. After that Ellison didn't miss a chance to throw a jab at SAP. For example, his first and only tweet is dedicated to SAP's failure on the cloud market. But the history repeats and now Larry Ellison once again is watching SAP's back. Recently we told about SAP's new product - HANA - the Big Data database that left behind Oracle's database business. And now SAP has launched a cloud platform SAP Enterprise Cloud (built on HANA), which has the potential to become the Amazon for big companies and beat Oracle on the cloud market.
Enterprise Cloud platform is designed not only to host SAP's own ERP and portals. It's positioned as a PaaS service on which developers can create high-performance enterprise applications. According to Plattner, already 430 startups are building apps on top of the new platform.
But SAP - is SAP. And its cloud platform has one big drawback in the SAP style. Each company that wants to use the new platform must first pay the full cost of the SAP HANA license (as if it buys SAP HANA but not lease it from the cloud).
See also: Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
