Fast, simple and limited

Just quick and easy is not enough; fairness, transparency and continuity are also important. SAP removed the Limited Professional User (LPU) from the Price and Conditions List (PKL) at the beginning of the year.

Reorders are only partially possible. SAP is doing everything it can to push existing customers in the direction of Professional User (€3,200), and DSAG is still watching this goings-on largely inactively - but at the upcoming annual congress, this topic will be a dominant one.

After all, Michael Kleinemeier and Gerd Oswald are planning nothing other than to double support sales in this way - with the same service. Now, however, existing customers would have had until August 14 to justify how they wanted to continue to receive LPU - despite SAP's promise from last year:

"Customers who have previously licensed the Limited Professional User can license more of the same using the same definition."

It is true, everything could be justified somehow, but the phenomenon of language is based on regularity and agreement in action - defined the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).

After the verbal exchange of blows between SAP board member Gerd Oswald and DSAG board member Andreas Oczko regarding licensing regulations at last year's DSAG congress in Leipzig, there could be a repeat this year: Oczko against Kleinemeier (according to the official program, Gerd Oswald will not be present in his last year at SAP).

Global Managing Board member Michael Kleinemeier will give his keynote in Bremen on the second day of the congress. And the question arises whether he will only talk about simple and fast or also bring up the death of the LPU?

Clarification and agreement with the acting DSAG members would be desirable. In any case, the PKL 2015 in Bremen will provide plenty to talk about, because the topic of "indirect use" is still unresolved.

Officially, the platform user is supposed to solve it for 1,300 euros - but who can pay for that? A DSAG document discusses the possibility of damages due to relicensing concerning indirect use of more than two million euros per existing customer.