Kevin Kühnert in the SAP Community

Rhetorically, Lenck asked the group who finances SAP software development and who sets the direction?

SAP's existing customers finance the development of modern databases, ERP systems and acquisitions with their service fees and maintenance, which make SAP executives and shareholders richer and richer - the existing customers go empty-handed because their "old" software is no longer maintained.

Naturally, this is a bit of black-and-white painting. ERP/ECC 6.0 and Business Suite 7 users still get support, maintenance and support. But how many existing SAP customers are highly satisfied with Oracle, SQL Server and DB2, while SAP is using their service fees to develop the Hana database, ultimately forcing these same satisfied Oracle, Microsoft and IBM users to switch to Hana?

Unfortunately, our association DSAG gave up fighting this injustice a long time ago. So it would be worth a discourse to consider who should and could own SAP if about 92 of the 100 largest companies in Germany rely on SAP software.

It would be interesting to see what SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp would say about a Bill McDermott maximizing profits while simultaneously laying off over 4000 "old" employees.

Many of these "old" employees have the knowledge needed to maintain ERP/ECC 6.0 and Business Suite 7. But McDermott only wants young, inexpensive employees ready for his cloud projects.

Nils Minkmar put it perfectly in a commentary on Spiegel Online: [...] What was the scrappage bonus but a gift from the taxpayers to a large industry unwilling to reform? Perhaps Kühnert's comment is also receiving frenetic support because the idea is spreading that the car industry has only thanked us moderately, namely not with a renewal through sustainable drives, but instead with the development of cheating software. (Source)

What does SAP do with the service fees of existing customers? Does SAP thank the users or are these billions used to make acquisitions like Qualtrics that no existing customer needs?

Because whether Callidus, Qualtrics and many other acquisitions are merely cheat software at the end of the day is yet to be decided. Thank you Kevin Kühnert for starting a discourse on who should own what, when and how, who may or must set the direction, and who might own the resources and operating equipment?