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Technology Stocks : SAP A.G. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ibexx who wrote (1391)	7/12/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3424

Ibexx, I'm not yet a SAP investor but I was looking at the list of the worlds richest people today at: forbes.com and then I looked at this. forbes.com and discovered this. In case you and the thread didn't know this: Hasso Plattner. NET WORTH: $6,900 million SOURCE OF WEALTH: SAP(self made) CLASS: Top Ten The man: One of five former IBM execs to start SAP in 1972, now world's fourth-largest software firm. Serves as cochairman and chief executive. . The empire: Owns 23% of SAP, whose profits and sales climbed 63% last year. . The year: Emerged unscathed and untainted from a lingering insider-trading investigation last year that had reached the upper echelons of SAP. Good call: Responding to criticism that SAP software was too time-consuming to install and too complicated to run, spearheaded team that remedied problems. For fun: Internationally competitive sailer. Golfs on partner Dietmar Hopp's course in Walldorf, Germany. Germany HOMETOWN Walldorf AGE 54 COMPANY INFORMATION SAP AG Postfach 1461 D-69185 Walldorf Germany Website: www.sap.com PH: 49 6227/34-1282 -------------------- I'm short of usable cash at the moment - but in about a week or so I won't be. I'm thinking about buying some SAPHY then. My cohort, Hasso Plattner, and his company are indeed very impressive. Barry