In few years, 1 EURO would be 2 USD

After the speculation on recession that 1euro would become 1.5 usd coming true for few months, We will probably see in few years that 1eur will become 2usd. USD will be lower and lower for years to come.

http://www.finfacts.com/irishfinancenews/article_1012720.shtml US dollar crashes through $1.50 level against Euro in advance of Bernanke's expected signal to the US Congress of further rate cuts

http://aroundsap.blogspot.com/2008/02/sign-of-recession-very-unstable-us.html sign of recession, very unstable US dollar

What they say about saving to dollar is now more and more inevitable if we want to secure values. Money especially USD will lost its value more and more comparing to gold or other currency.

GET LIFEBOAT, GET GOLD.

SAP career is better than Oracle career?

This might be not true. But i notice there are many consultant coming from other ERP background migrated to SAP (including from Oracle), also the customer bases, i meant Oracle customers migrated to SAP. But I cant recall any of my colleagues or consultant I know which migrate to Oracle from SAP.

There are some news regarding SAP customer going to Oracle ERP, but it seems marketing news and only one or two cases which is blown up to media. In same time SAP customer is also sometimes an Oracle customer as well, the company uses SAP for its ERP but use Oracle as their database server (RDBMS).

SAP career will be very difficult to find if you are not lucky comparing to Oracle career, so there is good positive rewards for people who can find the difficult jobs.

Better consulting career in SAP or Oracle? you may answer better now.

How to find this difficult job much more easier? I will try to write later about it.

is SAP Upgrade good job opportunity for new ABAP programmer?

SAP customer will find newer and newer version of ECC 6.0 Ecc7 ecc8 and so on, while older version may out from SAP maintenance terms. To maintain support from SAP, we need to perform upgrade to supported level of SAP version.

Consider following
- dictionary changes for higher version (new tables, change of fields, new structure, new objects)
- new component in new release such as

• integrated ITS (starting from R/3 Enterprise)
• additional standard plug in for R/3 such as SAP_BW (starting from ECC 5.0)

-GUI changes: for example debugger and SE38 editor will also has new face in ECC5 version, for functional transaction there will be BDC changes because of screen changes in new version
- based on functional or business process test, we will find more objects to fix because of upgrade process

Does SAP upgrade need certification or certified consultant to do it? not needed. I think a fresh graduate with 1 month ABAP extensive training and 6 months self study of ABAP can handle this upgrade. But because of tight upgrade schedule, this would not be good job opportunity for upgrade freshgrad

Chemical Weapon in Los Alamos?

It could be false or true, we have seen the fact chemical weapon was used in Vietnam war by US or nuclear-contained weapon in Iraq war.

How about the chemical development, let's see the detail from http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-dismisses-bird-flu-claims/2008/02/20/1203467183624.html

THE United States has rejected the Indonesian Health Minister's claims that it is using bird flu samples to produce biological weapons and World Health Organisation officials have condemned allegations of conspiring to profit from bird flu vaccines. The Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is understood to have ordered the minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, to recall copies of her book on avian influenza, which alleges the US and the WHO are conspiring against developing countries by seizing control of bird flu samples.

WHO officials said they were dismayed by some of the claims and urged Dr Supari to do more to control bird flu's spread and end her refusal to share virus samples - which is hampering attempts to find a cure.

At a news conference yesterday Dr Yudhoyono said Indonesia was willing to resume sharing bird flu virus samples if a fair and equitable agreement was reached.

"There is a misunderstanding among foreign nations that Indonesia won't co-operate, as if Indonesia won't share … but concrete co-operation has to be based on fairness."

A US State Department spokeswoman, Susan Stahl, denied Dr Supari's claim that Indonesian virus samples had been sent to a biological weapons laboratory in Los Alamos. The laboratory possessed no bird flu viruses from Indonesia or elsewhere, she said.

The facility's only involvement was hosting a database of publicly available genetic-sequencing data to help track the evolution of the virus, she said.

Dr Supari yesterday continued to say that virus samples had been sent via the WHO to the laboratory in Los Alamos. "Whether they use it to make vaccine or develop chemical weapons would depend on the need and interest of the US Government. It is indeed a very dangerous situation for the destiny of humanity."

The WHO's assistant director-general for Health Security, David Heymann, said he was puzzled by the claims.

"I don't understand why they would take this virus to make a biological weapon; it doesn't transmit from human to human. Indonesia needs to spend more time on dealing with infections with chickens and stopping humans from being infected."

He said Dr Supari had opened up the important issue of improving access to vaccines.

The director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza in Melbourne, Anne Kelso, said she was saddened by the accusations and the organisation monitored how the virus was changing. "We don't personally profit in any way from that work," she said.

masih ada PKI di kampus?

membaca artikel ini , mengerikan juga kalau memang betul2x ada simpatisan PKI di kampus Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Asuransi Trisakti (STMAT). Perusahaan dan sekolah mungkin perlu berhati2 dengan memberikan pendidikan demokrasi yang menghindari euforia reformasi dari susupan2 PKI.

http://fpks-dpr.or.id/new/main.php?op=isi&id=2240

spare time to read Danish Product list, Denmark produk

Hope you can share your time for non-violent protest and tell the list to your family purchasing manager (your wife or your mom) to know whether your family still use the products.

Denmark, Danish Produck List
- Lego, Lego, and Lego
- Arla Foods

http://dhanysarip.blogspot.com/2006/03/boikot-produk-denmark.html

- Novo Nordisk, Grunfos, Danisco, Danisco, Danisco

http://www.riskaonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=17

Action List:
- Bagaimana dengan Indonesia? No solidarity action from retailer and government?
- analis Danske Bank (bank milik pemerintah Denmark), Steen Bocian, menyatakan optimisme yang besar. ''Ekonomi Denmark cukup tegar untuk menahan boikot menyeluruh negara-negara muslim,'' kata dia
- solidaritas dari jaringan ritel dunia seperti Carrefour, misalnya, juga
menohok produk mereka. Lihat saja di Arab Saudi. Berbagai pasar swalayan utama Saudi bahkan jelas-jelas menempelkan plakat besar yang menyatakan tidak lagi menjual produk Denmark.
- Di Kuwait, boikot itu bahkan didukung penuh pemerintah. ''Kami menyatakan dukungan kepada supermarket yang tidak lagi menjual produk negara itu,'' bunyi pernyataan Kementerian Luar Negeri Kuwait. Jaringan ritel terbesar di negara itu, (UCS), sejak awal bahkan langsung menarik produk Denmark dari pajangan mereka. ''Sekitar 50 perusahaan sepakat menyetop impor barang dari Denmark,'' kata Presiden UCS, Mohammed al-Mutairi, saat diundang ke Parlemen.
- Ketua Parlemen Kuwait, Jassem al-Khorafi, meminta boikot ekonomi total. ''Itu akan menjadi pelajaran bagi mereka yang ingin mengulangi penghinaan di masa depan,'' kata dia. Sikap itu tentu akan memengaruhi perdagangan Kuwait-Denmark, yang setiap tahun mencatat angka sekitar 170 juta dolar AS, atau sekitar Rp 1,5 triliun.


http://www.freelists.org/archives/nasional_list/02-2006/msg00185.html

I don't believe in violent protest, but
I do support non-violent acts such as boycotting,
nulis letter to the editor, menandatangani petisi dll.

Ini dia URL address dan daftarnya:

http://buydanish.home.comcast.net/products.htm

Food:
Arla Foods is Europe's second-largest dairy company
and the leading Danish exporter to Saudi Arabia, where it sells an estimated
328 million dollars worth of products every year
Brands:
Rosenborg
Lurpak
Dofino
Denmark's Finest
Mediterra

Danish Crown (meat)
Lurmaerket Butter
Danish Bacon
Thor Fish
Danisco Food

Candy:
Toms (chocolate)
LAgermann
Galle & Jessen
Ingeborgs Chocolate

Beverages:
Tuborg Beer
Carlsberg Beer
Aalborg Aquavit (snaps)
Danish Distillers

Medicine:
Novo

Audio Equipment/Home Theater
(Theatre for those across the Pond):
B&O (Bang & Olufsen)
Cilo
Eltax
Tangent

Cigarettes:
Prince (Do not start smoking because of this fire!)

Clothing:
H2O
Hummel
Per Reumert
Munthe plus Simonsen
Bruuns Bazaar
Veromoda
Only
IC Companies
In Wear
Matinique
Sand

Shoes:
Ecco (USA Site)
Jaco

Toys:
Brio (toys)
Lego (toys)

Danish Design:
B & G Porcelain
Georg Jensen
HTH- kitchen
Morsoe (Fireplaces)
PH-lamps
Pipes
Raadvad (knives etc.)
Royal Copenhagen
Royal Danish Porcelain
Skagen (Watches)
Stelton
Trip Trap
Vesta (Windmills)

Other:
Danish Yarn
Nexo Fireplaces
Nilfisk Vacuum Cleaners (USA site since I do not speak
Danish)
Watco Danish Furniture Oil

SAP Upgrade Project Plan for ECC6, ECC7/NW7,BW7,SCM 7,Ehp5, EHp6

SAP Upgrade project Plan and some details :

• Project Goals: maintenance and support lifetime, netweaver or core version consolidation, compliant with standard, 
• Upgrade Type: Functional or Technical Upgrade
• System/Product Scope: ECC (ERP), BW/BI, SRM, SCM, CRM, XI/PI, EP
• Additional Scope of Upgrade: interfaces, other SAP product connected, non SAP product, SAPGUI upgrade, infrastructure (printer, network, hardware, OS Unix/Windows/Linux/AS400 etc, clustering, disaster recovery site, user frontend computer, user OS/Windows, MS Office), database upgrade, unicode conversion, EHP upgrade, Enhancemen/extension activation, Functional activation
• Language Activation and Unicode Conversion: Unicode conversion can be combined with upgrade with CUUC CU & UC (combined upgrade and unicode conversion)
• Enhancement Package: EHP4/EHP5/EHP6(?) for ECC 6.0, and EHP1/EHP2/EHP3(?) for Netweaver, etc
• Code Freeze timeframe: soft code freeze is when development upgraded or project started, hard code freeze is when production soon to be upgraded
• Upgrade path: production copy upgrade, development (realization phase), QA, and production. In dual maintenance strategy: development and QA are copied, then upgrade either the original or copied system
• Upgrade Downtime : technical downtime and end business user downtime

• Duration and upgrade timeframe: 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, etc.
• Go Live Date: date when Production is running under new release, ready for end business users; considering end business user closing or important business transaction, holiday, low end user workload, subject to management approval
• Roles of Team: Project Manager (PM), Basis, ABAP, Functional for each modules (FI/CO, MM, HR, SD, PP, PM), Interfaces and non SAP application, Authorization, QA and Test Management, Training
• Higher Roles in Project: consultant and user
• Upgrade Methodology: ASAP for SAP Upgrade, Solution Manager (Solman) Upgrade Roadmap (SAP Upgrade Roadmap contains phases: Preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Production Cutover and Go Live, Support), consultant own methodology, etc
• Technical Upgrade optimization strategy: Resource minimized or downtime minimized
• Risk and Mitigation: Risk list, impact and mitigation e.g. out dated SAPGUI can't access SAP, printing problem, performance issue, failure after go live, delayed go live date, interface failure, etc
• Upgrade services: SAP upgrade analysis, Free Upgrade Analysis (this free stuff may take your sensitive data as their in-trade benefit in unknown network protocol and data transfer), standard SAP Golive check (Go-Live/GL Analysis, GL Optimization, GL verification, covered by SAP maintenance support), SAP downtime minimized service, SAP Upgrade Factory
• SAP Upgrade Tools: upgrade prerequisite check, upgrade assistant, unicode preparation and conversion tools, migration tools (R3load export and import), ABAP tools, EHP installer
• Cost estimation: upgrade service, hardware, OS, licenses, downtime cost, training, general operation

opportunity for ABAP in SAP upgrade

Upgrade in SAP

Sizing for ECC6 , hardware sizing and benchmarking