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...changing customer demands. "We will give our customers the option to decide which software they want to use," Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said on Tuesday. The company also plans to increase the number of global enterprise agreements,...

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...the investigation by the European Commission. The editorial cited a previously-secret letter from SAP's chief executive Leo Apotheker sent to Larry Ellison at Oracle which said: "As you know, we have significant concerns about...

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...Sun merger "as far back as the end of July 2009." The deal was first announced in April. "Since there was no response, our CEO Leo Apotheker took the initiative and wrote to both Oracle and Sun CEOs in the middle of September to voice our...

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...editorial that speculated about the latter possibility. The editorial was based on a letter sent to Ellison on Sept. 15 by SAP CEO Leo Apotheker, which consisted of the following statement, according to the Journal: "As you know, we have...

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...Deal WALLDORF, Germany, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Wall Street Journal speculated last week that SAP CEO Leo Apotheker may have intended to offer facilitating the Oracle-Sun merger in the ongoing European Commission's...

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...analysts read SAP's entrails and make Delphic pronouncements about the world economy. Sales at IBM and Oracle also disappointed. Leo Apotheker, SAP's chief executive, said that business was stabilising but at a lower level. Customers were...

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...News Service - Shortly after European regulators opened an antitrust probe into Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, SAP CEO Leo Apotheker wrote Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, asking for a meeting to discuss the merger and "other open...

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...Asia and other regions that remain reluctant to spend on IT. "Businesses are still very cautious in making major investments," SAP CEO Leo Apotheker told reporters on a conference call. As the world's largest maker of software that...

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...optimistic" the worst was behind it and continues to believe that, but the company still faces difficult challenges, CEO Leo Apotheker said during a conference call. This has been "a very peculiar year" business-wise, he said. While...

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...just as rivals had given cause for hope that tech spending was on the rise. The German business software specialist's Chief Executive Leo Apotheker, who until June shared the job with Henning Kagermann, told Reuters TV he was nevertheless...

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