If this is true, SAP developers are going the way of the dinosaur.
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I have been told that ABAP is dying since 2000 and almost 20 years on still getting headhunters contacting me. The dinosaurs did not die overnight.
I have been told that ABAP is dying since 2000 and almost 20 yard on still getting headhunters contacting me. The dinosaurs did not die overnight.
The US economy is doing very well right now. Some tech companies are doing extremely well (Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Google) while others are struggling, downsizing, and cutting costs (IBM, SAP, Oracle).
The layoffs were in specific areas with underperforming products -- HANA being one. The economy is doing quite well right now. The layoffs are coming from specific vendors that are in decline.
The HANA layoffs are what surprised me, I mean it never really lived up to any of the the hype and the claims of a "zero response DB" is complete BS.
With the downright silly hardware costs and insane licensing costs, I think SAP is ready to fall on the sword and push HANA to the side. With database and SQL services from the cloud vendors, HANA really has no shot for anyone but pure on premise users, and even they are throwing things into the cloud, even if they don't make sense as it's the trend.
SAP, Oracle, etc, etc.
All seeing mass layoffs because the problem isn't the company, it's the entire economy. Time to take your heads out of the sand ostriches.
ABAP is COBOL in a suit. SAP devs were always dinosaurs.