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Computer Genius; German giant SAP had one big idea. Now can it survive what some are calling the death of software?(Company overview)
Byline: Rana Faroohar
When you think of technology visionaries, names like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs spring to mind. One that probably does not is Hasso Plattner. It should. As the founder of the German firm SAP, the world's third largest software maker, Plattner has been every bit as influential as his better-known peers, perhaps even more so. Back in the 1980s and '90s, he and a few other former IBM engineers did for companies what Microsoft did for consumers, by replacing mainframes with easy-to-use business software that could be accessed via desktop computers. It was a paradigm shift that changed the way corporations worked: today, depending on whose ...
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