SAP
SAP is like the 'Microsoft of Europe'. Microsoft was going to acquire SAP at one stage and these companies lobby together against software freedom. SAP has a history of making some very Free software-hostile remarks that stirred up the public. More recent examples are summarised below.
SUSE Said It Was Becoming Independent But Instead It Became Like an ‘Asset’ of SAP (‘German Microsoft’), Which is Hostile Towards Free Software
Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
Giving Legitimacy to Microsoft at the Expense of “Open Source”
Software Patents Lobbyists Disguised as ‘Open Source’ Friends/Companies
Dark Day for HP: Microsoft Ally Becomes Its New CEO (SAP CEO)
SAP Uses SUSE to Compete Against Novell and Promote Proprietary Software
SAP/Microsoft Attack on Java, OpenOffice.org, Other Libre Products Culminates in Alliance
When Microsoft Wanted to Buy SAP…
Erwin Tenhumberg Can Convince SAP to Stop Attacking Sun and Free Software
Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle