What is SDN for?

What is the purpose of SDN? A developer community, a dumping ground for third parties to promote their organisations/products, somewhere for individuals to raise their profiles? In my humble opinion. I see SDN as a developer community. Community being the operative word here. I believe it should be a place where people actively using SAP products can collobrate and help each other.
To provide support for each other (FORUMS)
Document problems/solutions we've experienced (BLOGS)
Develop a repository of useful information (WIKI).
In addition to this I would have also thought SAP might like to use this as a place to provide useful and informative documentation for developers. Lets take marketing, sales and consultants out of the equation and concentrate on the products that are being used. When I come to SDN I'm not looking for someone's thoughts on the future of e-commerce in distribution or how fantastic SAP products are. I'm coming to SDN to resolve a particular problem or investigate a solution in more depth. That's not to say that these sorts of documents aren't useful, when I have time I like to keep myself updated with new developments & thoughts, but not when I have a problem with a productive system and I'm trying to find a solution.
Too many small changes have been made to SDN over the past couple of years when what we should be doing is reviewing it from top to bottom. Lets make it easy to use, make it easy to find relevant content and build upon the community. Take a look at MSDN. I mentioned this before in a number of postings but MSDN is a joy to use.
This is just my opinion but I have the feeling that a lot of developers feel the same way. If you are reading this posting I'd like to hear what you think.
Thanks for reading
Rob

Hi,
I am only partially agree to this, I am visiting SDN now known as SCN( This is also part of improvement) for the last couple of years and I have seen lots of good changes happened to this community network. The information repository in SCN is excellent, The Developers, consultants, Process owners can interact with each other, they can share their experiences in Forum, Blogs and Articles. Can make yourself up to date with the dynamic changes in the Technology.
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In my humble opinion. I see SDN as a developer community. Community being the operative word here. I believe it should be a place where people actively using SAP products can collobrate and help each other.
I believe it is the place where the people participating and discussing about the SAP products.
>      * To provide support for each other (FORUMS)
>      * Document problems/solutions we've experienced (BLOGS)
>      * Develop a repository of useful information (WIKI).
Again we have Very Experienced and /best consultants are helping and sharing there ideas in Forums , Blogs and Wikis, From my Experience i can say , I learnt 60% of My SAP from SCN, and i am proud to be part of it.
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> In addition to this I would have also thought SAP might like to use this as a place to provide useful and informative documentation for developers.
SAP is providing the platform for sharing the ideas, I have seen many of the SAP employees are helpping and providing the links of the documents as and when requested by the User.
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When I come to SDN I'm not looking for someone's thoughts on the future of e-commerce in distribution or how fantastic SAP products are. I'm coming to SDN to resolve a particular problem or investigate a solution in more depth. That's not to say that these sorts of documents aren't useful, when I have time I like to keep myself updated with new developments & thoughts, but not when I have a problem with a productive system and I'm trying to find a solution.
You can get the up to date technological updates in SCN home page itself, Did you try reading the Articles which are updated Regularly or blogs or different posts?
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Too many small changes have been made to SDN over the past couple of years when what we should be doing is reviewing it from top to bottom. Lets make it easy to use, make it easy to find relevant content and build upon the community. Take a look at MSDN. I mentioned this before in a number of postings but MSDN is a joy to use.
> This is just my opinion but I have the feeling that a lot of developers feel the same way. If you are reading this posting I'd like to hear what you think.
I appreciate Your observations, but this is my opinion that for SAP World SCN is like BACKBONE.
Thanks,
Raja
PS: Formating is not working, Apologies for that...... @ moderator please format this thread as i tried formating it but was unsuccessful.
Edited by: Raja Singh Chhabeda on Jul 15, 2009 8:33 PM

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