The European Commission has closed its antitrust investigation into SAP's maintenance and support practices for on-premise enterprise software after accepting a package of commitments from the company. SAP agreed to offer an alternative licence fee calculation method, eliminate reinstatement fees, reduce back-maintenance charges, and allow licence termination in cases of insolvency. The commitments apply globally for 10 years, effectively turning a European regulatory settlement into a worldwide policy change. SAP avoids a potentially multi-billion euro fine and any formal infringement finding, while the Commission secures enforceable behavioral changes without lengthy litigation. The concessions modestly erode SAP's recurring maintenance revenue but align with the company's broader strategy of migrating customers from legacy on-premise systems to cloud subscriptions.
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Amazon vừa ra mắt các phiên bản EC2 High Memory U7i (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) tại vùng AWS Europe (Zurich), cung cấp 896 vCPU, 12TiB RAM DDR5 nhờ vi xử lý Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids, băng thông mạng 100Gbps và hỗ trợ ENA Express, tối ưu cho các cơ sở dữ liệu in-memory quan trọng như SAP HANA, Oracle và SQL Server.
Là người phát triển cần tìm giải pháp xử lý dữ liệu in-memory hiệu quả cho ứng dụng doanh nghiệp, EC2 U7i ở Zurich sẽ giúp tối ưu hóa công suất cho các hệ thống SAP HANA, Oracle hay SQL Server với bộ nhớ DDR5 12TB và vCPU 896.
SAP is celebrating 15 years of membership in the OpenJDK project, having joined on July 14, 2011. The post traces SAP's Java involvement back to 2000, including the acquisition of InQMy, development of SAPJVM, and participation in the Java Community Process. Key OpenJDK contributions highlighted include the PowerPC/AIX port (JEP 175), Helpful NullPointerExceptions (JEP 358), Elastic Metaspace (JEP 387), and JFR CPU-Time Profiling (JEP 509). SAP also maintains OpenJDK 17, 21, and 25 update release lines and holds a seat on the JCP Executive Committee. Additional ecosystem contributions include JFR tooling, async-profiler packaging, and an open-source IntelliJ profiler plugin.
SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-AI-related travel to redirect funds toward a major AI investment push, according to an internal memo confirmed by the company. New hiring will focus almost exclusively on AI roles, and supplier spending will also be cut. CEO Christian Klein has been restructuring SAP around AI throughout 2026, including a new 'Autonomous Enterprise' concept and a Business AI Platform. SAP's stock has dropped roughly 33% this year amid fears AI will erode demand for its traditional software. The company also missed out on acquiring industrial-AI firm Cognite, which was acquired by Schneider Electric for $3.1bn. Questions remain about whether SAP's early AI tools deliver sufficient value, especially as most customers are still mid-migration from on-premise to cloud.

Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in three additional Asia Pacific regions: Seoul, Malaysia, and Tokyo. These SAP-certified instances deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to the previous X2i generation. They are optimized for memory-intensive workloads including SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA, with notable gains in PostgreSQL, Memcached, and AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes including two bare metal options and are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot pricing.
SAP is undergoing its second major leadership reshuffle of 2026, redistributing product and engineering oversight to CEO Christian Klein and COO-level executives to accelerate AI integration. The reorganization follows a March reshuffle that freed Klein to focus on AI, and now extends that logic into product and engineering. Klein has framed the move as going 'all in on AI,' driven by investor pressure and competitive threats from rivals embedding AI agents into enterprise workflows. Critics may read two reshuffles in four months as a company still searching for the right structure rather than executing decisively. SAP's core challenge is weaving AI automation into its dominant ERP platform before competitors or model providers can bypass it entirely.