@liw On the other hand, that's also reassuring, because the three big companies use SAP and are dependent on it. And conversely, SAP is dependent on them. No one's going to pull the plug on themselves. Because if the US corporations were to pull the plug on SAP in their data centers, then 90% of the top US companies would be left without an ERP system.

@liw I work for very large international organizations. I can't imagine having to work with local "medium-sized" companies in every region, with their own billing systems, or companies that don't speak English (Belgium, France, Brazil). On the other hand, I wish, especially for our European clients, that everything would run on non-US-dependent hosting providers. But just ask SAP; they only work with AWS, Azure, or Google data centers.