SAP Reports Revenue up 12 Percent, Earnings up 15 Percent
SAP reported a 15 percent year-on-year rise in earnings for the second quarter, on revenue up 12 percent. It forecast that underlying revenue growth in its core business of software and software-related services will accelerate following completion of its acquisition of Sybase.

SAP Underperforms
SAP underperforms on higher revenues.

SAP Software Revenue Rises 17%
SAP, the world's No. 1 maker of business-management software, said second-quarter earnings rose 15% as revenue gained 12%. Software revenue jumped 17%.

Even SAP is using more open source
Yesterday SAP took another step into the open source world by signing on to use the Black Duck Suite. The suite is a collection of tools that helps a company find open source projects. It also confirms that developers are using the code securely, in compliance with its license and not violating the company's internal policies (i.e. not exposing code they don't want to release as open source ...