Former enterprise guy here. You're 100% right. Curious, why doesn't anyone here mention SAP when the topic of enterprise software comes up? SAP is the enterpri

Former enterprise guy here. You're 100% right. Curious, why doesn't anyone here mention SAP when the topic of enterprise software comes up? SAP is the enterprise software company (bigger than Oracle in business software). That being said:[0] - SAP has 15,000 s&m employees (second only to it's 17,000 R&D employees) - Of it's €11B in gross profit, it spends €4B on s&m, or 25% of it's revenue (€16B). It spends roughly the same €4b on software development (Cost of software + R&d) Here's the funny thing. The argument for why cloud is taking over is that the Cost of Sales is supposed to go down. Ya...... (my thoughts on this: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/11/28/how-are-we-going-to-make-enterprise-cloud-profitable/ http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/11/28/how-are-we-going-to...) [0]http://global.sap.com/corporate-en/investors/pdf/sap-2013-annual-report.pdf http://global.sap.com/corporate-en/investors/pdf/sap-2013-an...