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SAP provides details of its Internet strategy
SAP AG is ready to tackle the Internet -- that was the message heard by more than 14,000 delegates at this year's Sapphire '99 user conference in Philadelphia.
The event kicked off with a visually dazzling video montage that traced the evolution of humanity's search for a prophesied Utopia, what the video referred to as the "city without walls."
The search, went the story, began in ancient times, before the birth of the world's major religions and stretched through to the Renaissance, the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution. But that search has ended, it alleged, with the birth of the so-called "City of E," which just happens to be SAP's slogan for its new Internet strategy.
During his keynote address, SAP co-chairman and co-CEO Hasso Plattner admitted SAP has been slow getting with the 'net.