Some tea leave reading regarding SAPs past, current & future strategies

Hi, folks!
Did anybody come across searchsaps interview with Axel Angeli titled "<a href="http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1250982,00.html">SAPs Shai Agassi is gone - Hurray!</a>"?
If not, give it a glance! This man speaks out some - for many of us probably uncomfortable - truths about SAPs recent past and future strategies, problems and challanges. What I - with this post - would like to get is your opinion on the questions risen in the article and the answer given there.
Was the introduction of Java really that big mistake and a wasting of resources that would better have been invested in the further development of ABAP. Do we now have a state where we must live with a Java engine, which would never prompt only one Java Developer to spend a thought about migrating his/her applications to it, and a half-baken ABAP engine, which still lacks many essential features, too.
Is ABAP the language of SAPs future on which the "premium application platform for nearly everyone" is to be built on in future, the vital medium which will enable the "full-featured, message queue-based Enterprise Service Bus" SAP needs to push its ESOA strategy.
Was the introduction of Java "the horror of customers"? Are there - beside the ERP - just "niche places" for BW, SEM and APO and will the major developments "happen mainly on the ABAP side"?
This - together with some other relevant news regarding the dull sale of SAPs Portal, the poor performance of MDM a.s.o. - leaves some serious questions open to me which I would really like to discuss with you guys. Just google for "agassi mdm portal" and you' ll get some interesting stuff from - unfortunatly mainly german - media like wiwo, computerzeitung a.s.o. which supply some perfect input for our talk.
Regards,
Thomas
Regards,
Thomas

David,
I don' t know how SAP sector looks like in US, but in Austria every CIO I know seems to shy at implementing any Java based SAP technology because of lacking professional consultant support or Basis/Development Know How within his/her organizsation. Even SAP itself often seems not to be able to provide reliable consulting, support or even information on their new product line.
So what' s the use of all these new Java based stuff - the real use for customers? Have any features been implemented in Java that couldn' t be realized in ABAP? Object Orientation, Web Services, Web Dynpro - what else do you need to provide Service Oriented Architecture but a set of clean interfaces to your business logic - a.k.a. BAPIs.
Customers are struggling to get their Java servers running, to get a Java infrastructure set up, to get the new SAP Java products modified to suit their needs a.s.o.
SAP' s struggling to get their new servers installed in customers IT landscapes, to huckster their new Java products like ESS/MSS a.s.o., to get companies/consultants buy their Java focused classroom trainings a.s.o.
Consultants like myself, who got into SAP branche luckily via the Java track realize that there' s no real steady demand for their skill set and are finally overhappy to get their BC400/401 paid so they can start working into real projects and not just internal demo applications, prototypes a.s.o.
Is this the great innovation Mr. Agassi brought to his customers, company and the people earning their living with his products by introducing this marvellous, open, standard based programming environment?
Regards,
Thomas

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