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              | Date: 1999-03-25 
 
 SAP: Keine Umsatzzahlen mehr-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 Mit den märchenhaften Wachtumsraten der letzten Jahre von
 40 Prozent & mehr  ist's anscheinend endgültig vorüber, für
 das Quartal I 99 gab die deutsche SAP, das grösste
 Softwarehaus Europas, erst gar keine Zahlen bekannt. Der
 Kurs ist binnen eines Jahrs mit minus 30 Prozent im Loch.
 
 Ruchbar wurde zugleich, dass SAP einem Grosskunden in
 Australien, der sich über die mühsame Implementation der
 SAP-R3 Software [Lagerverwaltung, Buchhaltung, & c & c]
 öffentlich geäussert hatte, Klage angedroht hatte.
 
 post/scrypt: Auf offiziellen SAP-CDs fanden sich im Jahre 98
 detaillierte Raster-Anleitungen für Führungskräfte, wie man
 von Mitarbeitern Persönlichkeitsbilder erstellt..
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 HEIDELBERG, Germany--SAP said first-quarter pretax profit
 will be considerably below the year-ago level as sales fall
 short of expectations.
 
 The Walldorf, Germany-based company, which had a pretax
 profit of 331 million deutsche marks ($184 million) in the first
 quarter of 1998, did not release figures for the quarter, which
 ends March 31. Sales growth in the period will be slightly
 below forecasts for full-year growth of 20 to 25 percent, SAP
 said.
 
 The company's preferred shares have dropped more than 30
 percent this year on concern that SAP and its competitors
 face slowing growth as companies delay software purchases
 to focus on fixing their year 2000 computer problems. Rivals
 PeopleSoft, Baan, and J.D. Edwards have all seen sales
 slow.
 
 "It's the millennium effect, and it's affecting the whole
 industry," said Cornelis Bos, an analyst at ING Barings, who
 has a "buy" rating on the shares. SAP's preferred shares
 rose 4 euros, or 1.45 percent, to 280, retreating from a gain
 of more than 4 percent before the announcement. The
 company said at an analyst meeting earlier this month first-
 quarter profit wouldn't meet expectations.
 
 After years of profit growth of more than 40 percent on
 demand for its flagship R/3 software, which helps companies
 manage personnel, manufacturing, and accounting, SAP's
 net income rose just 14 percent in 1998 as Asia's economic
 problems crimped corporate earnings.
 
 Problems in Japan, which account for 8 percent of sales, will
 continue to plague the company in the first half, SAP co-
 CEO Henning Kagermann said at a press conference. SAP
 also faces waning demand for products that adjust
 companies' operations for the year 2000 and the new
 European currency. SAP's R/3 was among the first to
 account for those changes.
 
 Full Text
 http://technews.netscape.com/computing/technews/newsitem/0%2C290%2C34253%2C00.html?pt.nc.txtdisp.hl.ne
 
 Klagsdrohung
 http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/idgnet/9903243sapsuit
 
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 "There is no solution because there is no problem" Marcel Duchamp
 http://www.heimatseite.com/revamp-duchamp
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 published on: 1999-03-25
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