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SAP chief executive announces retirement
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: Hasso Plattner, chief executive and co-founder of SAP, announced Thursday that he will step down in May. ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber gets reaction from SAP executive board member Shai Agassi.

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