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Hasso Plattner (ex-SAP CEO) Ventures launches $45mm VC fund in South Africa

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Carel

Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Venture Capital

I’ve mentioned Hasso Plattner a number of times in my blog. He is the colorful co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG. He is also the father of SAP’s client-server 3-tiered product called R/3.
This week Hasso Plattner launch HP Ventures Africa (Hasso Plattner — not to be confused with Hewlett Packard) in Cape Town, South […]

SAP’s on demand/SaaS ERP solution, codenamed A1S

Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Saas, Technology

My aim with this post is to summarize the information currently available on A1S. A1S has been in the works for at least 3 years and is SAP’s on demand or SaaS (Software as a service) ERP solution. According to ZDNet A1S is targeted to launch in 2008 and is part of SAP’s strategy to […]

Ruby on Rails - Build a blogging engine in 15 minutes!

Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology

With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz:
“Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text […]


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