Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Fallout from SAP's maintenance fee price hike

Dennis Howlett is reporting that the U.S. SAP user group (ASUG) has terminated its first full-time CEO, Steve Strout. Dennis speculates--with good reason--that Strout was not pushing back hard enough on SAP's recent hike in maintenance fees.

Read Howlett's post for more.

In related news, Societe Generale analyst Richard Nguyen put out a sell-rating on SAP's shares, on his forecast that SAP's fourth-quarter profit will come up short. The reason? SAP customers are pushing back on SAP's maintenance price increase.

Larry Dignan has more on Nguyen's downgrade on SAP.

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