In early April, SAP promoted Lou Apotheker to co-CEO to help ease the transition for the planned retirement of CEO Henning Kagermann. Kagermann is slated to leave the company in the spring of 2009. Apotheker had been widely pegged as Kagermann's successor since March 2007, when SAP executive board member and reputed CEO-in-waiting Shai Agassi left the company after Kagermann's contract was extended into 2009.

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