News and Views from SAP's SAPPHIRE Now: 5/18/2011

SAP Certifies Amazon Cloud as Production-Ready (Gigaom)

Microsoft chases Amazon in taking SAP to the cloud (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP launching in-memory computing cloud
Partners will build applications that use SAP's HANA in-memory compute engine (Network World)

Exclusive: SAP-Oracle Tussle Alters Hana Appliance Plan (Information Week)

SAP Forecasts $7 Billion Revenue From New Units (Bloomberg)

Can SAP see the win-win-win pot of gold that is Sybase? (ZDNet Blogs)

The Long Retreat Up Market (Enterprise Irregulars)