We’ll leave it to subscribers to decide whether it’s the ethnicity of the protagonists or the fact that the management is ex-IBMers, but the growling spat at the top of SAP AG is still on the boil in the run-up to Christmas. It’s now more than six months since the chairman of SAP invited HansWerner Hector to resign from his supervisory post, and Hector, who upset everybody else by selling some of his voting shares outside the charmed circle, putting control of the company in jeopardy, has finally bowed to the inevitable and quit. But not without a parting salvo at the three other founders – he said he was resigning in protest over the inability of the company’s supervisory board to oversee SAP’s management as required by German law.
