At any rate, you’re right, the eGeeks page doesn’t look, how should I say this, so great in IE6, but I wouldn’t be too concerned, I’m pretty sure most have moved on to IE7 or 8 by now. Microsoft is definitely losing the Browser wars though. I’ll rarely use IE anymore, between Firefox and Chrome who needs clunky IE? It’s a pleasure to watch Microsoft’s chokehold on the browser market wither.

Meantime, as for Rimini and SAP support, it seems to me that this is really going to appeal to that smaller segment of the 4.x customer base that is really pretty disillusioned with SAP and has no plans to upgrade to 6.0 anytime. I don’t know what percentage of the 4.x market that is, offhand I’d guess 25 percent but I could be off.

To me, it’s understandable that a customer no longer interested in advancing on SAP (or without any resources to do so) would go the Rimini route, but I have a hard time imagining a customer looking ahead to ERP 6.0 and Enhancement Packs taking that route.

At any rate, it would be interesting to hear from customers who are going that route or at least debating their support options. The competition from Rimini is healthy for SAP – like Thomas I am eager to find out if Enterprise Support can handle a true challenge on the $ front. I have my own prediction on how this is going to play out but I’m gonna keep it to myself until we get a little further along.

- Jon