Oh yes, I feel a gender problem coming. Soon I will cross the line and become a 2% minority age group at sdn with this unspeakable age number in front.
sdn is the community network of SAP professionals, with more than 2 million users and I am one of the avid bloggers on this forum. But recently, I feel a shift in engagement and audience. Is it a shift of my anticipation, lifetime experience or just getting old?

Inspired by the book enedeavor, that MArk Yolton, VP of sdn started with the title "TLE: The Living Enterprises" and the recent discussion on my little rant in sdn, where Mark nicely responded (and giving me some more insights), the discussions of "Living Enterprises" shifted slowly.

When I first heard the news, that Leo Apotheker was leaving SAP, I was astounded. He was the boss of my boss, when I was at SAP and Leo was on his way to European Head with a "no prisoner" approach. Since I knew him, he was on the straight way to the CEO Office.
The second thing that amazed me was the reaction. Investors where wailing, developers in Walldorf applauded.

In early spring this year I started a new discussion with a small company in Graz, Austria who was producing video based training for Adobe (Photoshop, Creative Suite etc) and various Open Source products like Blender etc. These training DVD are published like books and distributed by Addison Wesley. We started together the idea of applying this concept to SAP training