When Hasso Plattner talks, it is best to listen. The SAP SE co-founder and current chairman of its supervisory board, can explain technical issues with the best in the world, words often leaping from his lips with a German lilt. At 73, his energy has hardly waned.
Plattner talked earlier this week — first as the Day 2 keynoter at SAP Sapphire at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, then in a more relaxed news conference with media and analysts — and I had the chance to listen. I even got a question or two in.