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SAP R/3: The Enterprise-Software Bet on Client-Server Computing

SAP financed a costly shift from mainframe software to client-server R/3, using heavy R&D spending and a partner ecosystem to turn enterprise applications into a global platform.

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SAP: Five Engineers Bet on Real-Time Enterprise Software

Five former IBM engineers founded SAP around a contrarian idea: standardized enterprise software could process business data in real time and be reused across many customers.

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