Diana

Oracle Sues SAP: Below the Belt With a 2x4

You wrote:

"Like a dime novel, there is some good fictional dialog (by July 2006, SAP "CEO Henning Kaggerman had conceded SAP had lost 2% market share to Oracle."). I must have been on vacation for that one. "

Actually, it's not fiction--Kagermann's remarks were widely covered at the time. :

"SAP says lost 'a little' business software mkt share in Q2 to Oracle, Microsoft
07.13.2006, 01:19 PM

FRANKFURT (AFX) - SAP AG chief executive Henning Kagermann said his company lost 'a little bit' of market share in the highly competitive business software market to peers Oracle Corp and Microsoft Corp in the second quarter.

SAP's share declined by a 'maximum 1-2 percentage points,' Kagermann said during a teleconference with analysts and investors. "

www.forbes.com/markets...

From Reuters:

"SAP misses forecasts, loses mkt share; stock drops

Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:09am ET

FRANKFURT, July 13 (Reuters) - German software maker SAP AG missed analysts' expectations for the second quarter and lost market share to its peers for the first time in three years, sending its shares down as much as 10 percent....

...Chief Executive Henning Kagermann admitted that SAP -- whose software helps businesses automate processes including customer management, supply chains and payroll -- had lost market share to its peers which he estimated at 1 to 2 percentage points. "

(The Reuter's link is insanely long--just do a Google search and look in the news archives for 2006 (on the left under "news"--it's a new feature). You will be able to bring up the Reuter's article and others from July 2006 quoting Kagermann.)

Sincerely,

Diana

(Oracle shareholder)