Positioning its NetWeaver platform for enterprise Java applications, SAP plans to offer a "virtual machine container" in 2005. With the announcement this week at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego, ...

A new competitive battleground has been opened: underlying technologies outside the usual core business competencies of application providers. Indeed, though Oracle came from the technology camp (with ...

Despite the impressive concept and compelling long-term vision of NetWeaver, SAP clients are facing a non-trivial learning curve, as with any new technology and corresponding terminology. Business and ...