@collsdad.
I sense that SAP execs are doing a much better job on employee engagement, probably the best since it was a founder run shop. Recent anecdotal evidence for me was SAP throwing a summer party for all the Walldorf employees and family. I don’t remember one of those for ages.

I meet a lot of SAP employees, either through work or socially, and the general “stimmung” is much improved.

Developer motivation seems a bit better too, as the efforts to dismatle an over complex development process to become more agile start to have an impact. There is still a lot to do though.

I agree again that Sybase does indeed need to be more than just a mobility play but given the lack of mobility in the current application stack either on-premise or on-demand it is the key focus of the acquisition, no debate.

A very good post though I would be interested to hear an informed assessment from the sidelines of the real morale and motivation of the field organisation as one of the companies key transformational topics was also to become ‘more employee focused’.