For the big German software company SAP, it was a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. The year was 2003, and SAP was just releasing its new NetWeaver platform–a nifty piece of software that fit on top of and around its existing enterprise applications, helping them talk to each other and to non-SAP applications. SAP... 

For the big German software company SAP, it was a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. The year was 2003, and SAP was just releasing its new NetWeaver platform–a nifty piece of software that fit on top of and around its existing enterprise applications, helping them talk to each other and to non-SAP applications. SAP... 

For the big German software company SAP, it was a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. The year was 2003, and SAP was just releasing its new NetWeaver platform–a nifty piece of software that fit on top of and around its existing enterprise applications, helping them talk to each other and to non-SAP applications. SAP...