Here Are More Details About SAP's Surprising New Partnership With VMware (VMW, SAP)

During a press conference on Tuesday to launch VMware's new cloud, Bill Fathers, VMware's top cloud exec, dropped a bombshell: VMware would be "the first and only cloud provider" to offer SAP's popular and pricey software on a monthly subscription plan, including SAP's Oracle-killer HANA database. Monthly subscription pricing of its software is something that SAP doesn't even offer its customers of its own brand-new cloud. Fathers offered no other details and neither company released a formal pr...