Blogs posted July 2003

Over a week ago I went back-to-back first to the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit (AO2003) then to the yearly conference of the World Future Society (Oddly enough, they took down the conference web page already, which makes it really tough to link to any... Read More »

Today (July 31, 2003), we held a ‘Project Forum‘ in the main SAP building in Walldorf, Germany. In this meeting, we addressed SAP developers and presented the status of the SAP Developer Network project, as well as future plans and... Read More »

I remember the time when OSS was a fledgling service, and it ran on an R/2 system in Walldorf. You accessed it via the R/2 SAPGUI just as any other R/2 system. It was great, and the volume of notes being generated then (I remember particularly at... Read More »

“Sharing is believing…” – as the SAP Developer Network become known within SAP communities (internal and external) the flow of ideas, requests and comments is increasing on a daily basis. So – what is new: We’ve... Read More »

Web based content management or stand alone client based content management, how do you choose ? Simple question, hard answer. I’ve dealt with this issue since the inception of the myTransAlta portal. To be more specific, does TransAlta stick... Read More »

I am a developer with TransAlta Corporation, Canada’s largest power generation company.  I have been working with Microsoft development tools and technologies for years.  Only in 2001 did I get introduced to a whole new stream of products... Read More »

SAP are running an Infotag on the Web Application Server in early September. It’s in Ratingen (Duesseldorf), just around the corner – literally, in fact – from where I used to hack on R/2 at Mitsubishi. As it’s just down... Read More »

We got a pretty good attendance at our talk on SAP R/3 at OSCON this year. We had people who were using R/3 in a corporate environment already, and people who were just curious about the famous ERP behemoth and what relation it had to Open Source.... Read More »

When you ask SAP Developers what SAP NetWeaver will mean to them, frequently you get the reply, “I don’t know really. Isn’t it just marketing?” SAP NetWeaver is marketing, but it is also a massive engineering,... Read More »

The answer to this question is humility. Humility led SAP to Java. Let me explain how I found this out. I got involved with SAP earlier this year when O’Reilly & Associates asked me to work on a project to write two books on the ideas... Read More »