German software giant SAP will cut several of its diversity programmes to abide by new requirements of the US administration, a spokesman told AFP on Sunday, confirming reports in the local press.

German software giant SAP will cut several of its diversity programmes to abide by new requirements of the US administration, a spokesman told AFP on Sunday, confirming reports in the local press.

  • besselj@lemmy.caEnglish
    852·
    5 months ago

    As a German company, they should know a thing or two about appeasing facists

    • the_wiz@feddit.orgEnglish
      403·
      5 months ago

      A big company just doesn’t care, its about money, not ideology.

      And for the part regarding “its a german company”… even that argument doesn’t work. Every major corporation that was involved in the Holocaust ist today not only still existing, but most are thriving.

    • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Apart from a little, externally driven restructuring in their real estate departments, the companies that collaborated with our facists back then came all out on top in the end and thrived. If there’s a lesson in there, its not the one we’d like to see.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    312·
    5 months ago

    I guess a company that makes garbage software has to have garbage policies too.

      • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I can’t be authoritative, but I suspect it’s like an enterprise business culture thing. The world is bigger than we think and enterprise folks see software and it’s usage differently than smaller or even younger folks.

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I don’t know but maybe it explains why it’s impossible to not use either AWS or Azure at work.

      • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        The great thing is that others help them with the squeezing. Migrating a modern, manufacturing company to OSS alternatives in the backend is somewhat possible but labour intensive, in the frontend, nope, won’t happen. Way too much software, from CAD to extremely task specific stuff will only work when there MS beneath it.