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SAP licenses NetWeaver to developers

Damien Jorgensen

Paying for a trial? 

SAP never ceases to amaze me in terms of its licensing structure. Even Oracle makes more sense than SAP.

Is the company being run by ex communists? Or do they think charging for what amounts to little more than a year’s trial is fair, or even going to get adopted by anyone that can see past the end of SAPs carrot?

Richard

I want one thing from SAP 

And that's a user interface that makes sense and is consistent.

With all the money pouring into them from so many businesses, you'd think they could put a little bit of it towards researching the human-machine interface.

Their current system means that I can repair a physical product in under half the time it takes to log the repair in SAP.