SAP: the wave of consolidation swept away from the it open-source competitors to consider _ MySQL

CNET technology news network's head of SAP, an international reporting software company in February 21, predicted that a wave of consolidation and waves are sweeping the information technology (IT) industry. once customers reduce the number of suppliers, many open-source commercial software companies may be put behind the market. SAP sells proprietary enterprise resource planning software to record corporate finances and manage relationships with customers. This German software company faces SAP

CNET technology news network's head of SAP, an international reporting software company in February 21, predicted that a wave of consolidation and waves are sweeping the information technology (IT) industry. once customers reduce the number of suppliers, many open-source commercial software companies may be put behind the market.

SAP sells proprietary enterprise resource planning software to record corporate finances and manage relationships with customers. The German software company faces competition from OpenMFG, SugarCRM, Compiere, and other companies.

However, Peter Graf, executive vice president of SAP marketing, said at the open-source business conference that these competitors have not yet formed a climate and may be difficult to achieve. He pointed out that every time there is a huge change in the market, for example, when customers change their computers to the Internet, users will trust companies they are familiar.

"When the market is consolidated, people will bet on the one side with the most investment," Graf said. "which open-source technologies have sufficient maturity, it is enough to survive the approaching blockbuster Linux attack-yes. Eclipse should be. Mozilla may be ."

Graf said: "We believe that the development of open-source commercial application software is not mature enough to cope with this huge consolidation trend ."

Open-source software companies use collaborative and shared programming methods to gradually compete with proprietary software companies. Although Graf and other directors of proprietary software companies have played down the competitive threats of open-source companies, however, attitude has changed.

For example, IBM bought an open-source Java application server company called Gluecode, and Oracle, a database giant, also considered acquiring MySQL, an open-source company.

John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM, does not agree with Graf's statement. He said that today, SugarCRM technology has matured and is more than enough for large enterprise customers.

"We are happy to compete with them. ." Avid Technology is an example of a customer who has abandoned SAP and switched to SugarCRM, he said.

Jorg Janke, CEO of Compiere, also said that open-source software is mature enough. for example, Compiere's software was used by up to 2,000 French beauty product manufacturers in a store.

However, Janke does not say anything about open-source commercial software. "Too many people think that open source code is a shortcut to commercial application software, and they try to get funding from venture capital companies quickly," he said ."

He pointed out that SAP also uses a variety of open-source programs, including Eclipse programming tools and Java application server software components, such as Apache Struts and JBoss Hibernate, which are widely used by many open-source software, it is sufficient to continue to exert its influence.