“Apple and SAP share an extensive and deep business relationship: Apple is among SAP’s biggest and most strategic customers, and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told ‘Mad Money’ host Jim Cramer last week that SAP is the largest tech-sector user of iPads on the planet,” SAP’s Bob Evans writes for Forbes.
“Tt was particularly poignant to hear McDermott tell Cramer about the deeply personal bond that he and Apple chairman Steve Jobs have formed not solely through the achievement of extensive business success but rather more intensely through a shared set of wrenching personal challenges,” Evans writes. “‘He’s a great guy,’ McDermott said of Jobs. ‘And I wish him well… As a matter of fact, when my mom was sick — she had a similar ailment to Steve’s — I called him up for help, and I asked him for help. And the guy gave me an hour of his time. He gave me all of his docs, his experiences,’ McDermott told Cramer. ‘He’s a tremendous human being,’ McDermott said of Jobs, ‘and the world is in his debt, he’s a great visionary, and he’s a terrific person. My heart goes out to him and his family.'”
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