- April 29, SAP delivered its 2009 first-quarter results. Software sales declined 33 percent, which was troubling in itself but not unexpected in this environment.
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker noted: "It is obvious that in the current climate customers are trying to pinch every dollar, euro and yen before they spend it."
- SAP and Teradata announced their expanded partnership in combining Teradata's data-warehousing and BI database technology and SAP's NetWeaver Business Warehouse software
- SAP rumors: Microsoft buying SAP (SAP), There is speculation that Microsoft would want to buy SAP becasue its business-management software competes with Oracle (ORCL). SAP is the second largest enterprise software company in the world and would help Microsoft sell more software to businesses and governments.