If something makes a news on Slashdot it has to belong to the kingdom of day-to-day geeks. Typically SAP professionals start getting the news about cool technologies brewing inside the tech giant thru various niche magazines and lately SDN. I was excited to read Dagfinn Parnas’s article SAP Virtual Machine Container (as seen on TechEd). But this article on slashdot just makes my day…

Writing an article about “A Java Server That Never Goes Down” is pure hubris, but a German developer who says he’s been “eating, sleeping, and drinking Java” for 8 years doesn’t seem to care and his article brings to light the aspects of VM we rarely think of as he introduces “user isolation” and tells about some interesting work SAP in Germany is doing in that area, merging the Java and the ABAP worlds.”

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I got a nice Diwali greeting from someone at SAP. I love it.

I too have been sending HTML greetings over the years. What I liked about this one was the right header, content and footer.

Pankaj

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Got the book in the mail today courtesy Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures. Some one, I think Vivekanand, said once to the effect that if you need advice on something, see what the great men of the world did in the same situation. It would be intersting to read how Hasso made a company with “128 quarters of financial results and only 1 of them in the red“. Thanks again to Jeff for the book giveaway.

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You can use the SAP Web Application Server to develop Web applications that are based on the Internet Communication Framework and the HTTP request handler IF_HTTP_EXT_BSP. These Web applications are also known as BSP applications (Business Server Page applications). [Link]

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Sylvia Lehnen writes in Connecting the Dots at SDN about portal content. I really like the refrigerator analogy

Market studies have shown that up to 50% of portal project fail not because of technical issues, but because the portals couldn’t attract users or get them to come back. It’s like an empty refrigerator, it doesn’t matter how great the refrigerator is when there are only a few stale items inside.

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Cnet Reports today SAP siphons Pepsi away from Oracle | CNET News.com

SAP said it will be responsible for installing the full range of the flagship MySAP product line at Pepsi, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management tools. SAP said the effort is aimed at unifying all the legacy software systems used in Pepsi’s many divisions, including Frito-Lay, Quaker Oats and the Pepsi Bottling Group.

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How do you let the world know all the cool technologies and solutions you are brewing up. By opening up more. That is what has been happening in the SAP world for the last couple of years. There was a time when the only public way to access information about SAP was through their website. There were few enthusiast websites but limited in content. This is changing now.

First of all there is SAP Community site. So many interesting discussions happen in the forums. Then there are executive blogs where you can read about vision and what is in the executive’s minds. They always have some cool freebie for the members as a part of their rewards program.

For the more technically inclined geek heads their is SAP Developer Network(SDN). You will find content areas for the complete technology stack. Netweaver, Enterprise Portals, Business Intelligence, and WebDynpro all are their. For consultants like me discussion forums is a great thing. Then there are weblogs where mavens(Thanks Mark for making me aware of this term) can write to their hearts desire. While over there don’t forget to check DevToday based on the ViewPoint technology. It is contextual mining of content on steroids :D Before I forget you do need the free registration to access these sites.

You might be a über geek but you still need quick access to documentation. Help portal just does the thing and with the help of trex search engine any help page is few click away. To top this all there are Best Practice guides also available on this help portal. These guides are the best qualitative knowledge you would find for implementing any solution from SAP.

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