SAP has some competitors for its smaller offerings. Odoo, OpenProject etc. But to replace a full scale SAP for an MNC with worldwide logistics and billions in sales, you will need well another SAP.

You are asking Intel to become Apple, sort of. Without control over any of the software that runs on their processors.

Yes this would drive away their customers to AMD. I am thinking Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer would not take it very well.

You are partially right, Israel does want to subdue the middle east and Iran stands in the way. However that does not absolve the current Iranian government of being a despicable entity, mostly hated by its own people. I hope the Iranian people choose democracy, limit the Ayatollahs to their holy city in Qom like the Vatican, tell that rascal Shah's son to go fornicate himself and of-course continue putting a necessary check on Israeli expansionism.

>>since salary is barely competitive even if you are a top performer getting special stock awards

People sitting outside FANG/NAMAMA still drool over those barely competitive salaries you speak of.

My reason for saying that was not to say the employees are not well-paid in an absolute sense. It's that the reality is that caliber of employee has options, and Microsoft does not work to retain them, which results in undesirable (from the company's perspective) attrition.

I have seen my uncle do it. He is a corporate finance consultant. He simply opens his laptop or phone and starts working on random things, replying to e-mails, making presentations, scheduling appointments, creating/closing tasks on client PM/ERP software. Sometimes for as little as 3 minutes.

As a developer, for the longest time I thought why tf can't I be as productive! Then I realized the rev up time for my line of work is not like his. By the time my brain switches context to work on code, those 5 minutes are up.

Overall IQ of the crowd also helps.

And the ethos of the founder even if he's moved on to Xitter.

This! I still come back to SO, but only after exhausting all AI proposed solutions across multiple models.

Sanctions against someone they need to contain Russia?

The EU is fine with it, because there are no principles in geo-politics. All their hue and cry about Ukraine is also because of their own security, not any virtue. Laughably it was the EU that went along with US plans to deorbit Ukraine from Russia's influence.

The only way for Venezuela to survive is to play dirty and be cunning/resourceful just like their Ukrainian counterparts fighting for their life.

You make it sound like it's a bad thing, being the subject of weekly nuclear threats and invasion threats like the EU is is a valid reason on its own to support Ukraine.

>being the subject of weekly ... invasion threats like the EU is

It is?

Yes it is, it happens almost every week.

3 days ago : https://www.politico.eu/article/medvedev-threatens-eu-freaks...

I see nothing about invasion there.

> Russia would pursue them in "all possible international and national courts ... and in some cases, extrajudicially,"

It's a textbook terrorist threat.

And? Where is invasion?

And what? What else would "extrajudicially" means appart from sending thugs or drones to kill people in the EU like they did already

"invasion, noun

an occasion when an army or country uses force to enter and take control of another country" [0]

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/invasion

Yes, Russian politicians like to voice ideas like that or just nuking EU cities. not sure if those are a weekly occurence, but its happened a couple of times this year, from officials mind you, so I wouldn't be surprised if state-run media or even just cranks that Putin likes to run for-out ideas through have weekly "Russians! We need to overrun the decadent EU" articles run...

A citation would be appropriate. Include the context too, like "If the EU sends troops in the Ukraine..."

> The only way for Venezuela to survive is to play dirty and be cunning/resourceful just like their Ukrainian counterparts fighting for their life.

You are trying very hard to make the situations sound similar, but they are not.

Ukraine is a democracy, Venezuela is not.

The scope of the attacks are entirely different. Still doesn't justify what Trump is doing, of course.

The scope of the attacks are entirely different. Putin's imperial adventures are driven by Ruso-dominated pan-slavism, Trump's are driven by oil. Entirely different, just like a tiger shark is different from a tiger. /s

Both also do it to distract from domestic problems with their regimes.

I also wonder why the EU should invest a significant amount of political, economical and hard military power to protect a failing dictatorship?

Make no mistake, the EU is not "fine" with the war in the sense that they will express diplomatic criticism of the US when Trump finally starts his idiotic (and narcissistic, and corrupt, but I already said "Trump") war. They are "fine" with it in the sense that they won't self-implode their collective political careers and perhaps the EU itself by sanctioning the US and destroying the economy of the entire EU for fucking Maduro. Doing that would be idiocy.

Well, Guadaloupe, Martinique and Curaçao are part of the EU.

And Belarus borders EU countries, but nobody throws a fit if the EU doesn't sanction Putin for making Lukaschenko suck him off. And wouldn't throw a fit if Putin decided his Lapdog needed to go.

I guess, in order to object to the Russian drone overflights, maybe they have to object to US refueling over Curaçao.