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Interesting....

I'm not huge on the SAP system and have not frankly done that much with it. But what I do know is that SAP consultants make a ton of money. I wounder if this will put a crimp in thier style? I'm assuming that MS is looking at this as a toe dip into the ERP environment.

I for one would like to see how this comes out. I have not heard too much about MS's aquistion of Great Plains..... how about you? Are they doing ok with that product line?

p.s. I'm an MS/Java consultant...hehehe

Lotsa SAP horror stories out there. Computer people do sometimes screw up, but if you mess up with SAP, you're talking seven or eight figures...

"But what I do know is that SAP consultants make a ton of money"

They do.
And most SAP installations (over 60%) are in Windows servers)

"I'm assuming that MS is looking at this as a toe dip into the ERP environment"

Microsoft is already in ERP, but so far they have limited themselves to serving companies with a user base of only 1000 or less.
So SAP is safe for the most part..for the mean time, since most of SAP's business is with the biggest businesses.
How long before Microsoft attacks SAP's costumer base? I have no idea, but I think it shouldn't be longer than 5 years.
We'll see.

" I have not heard too much about MS's acquisition of Great Plains.."

Its going great. Same guy from Great Plains(Doug something or the other) is now in charge of all Microsoft Business Solutions.