SAP founder Hasso Plattner: ‘If this doesn’t work, we’re dead. Flat-out dead.’ (SAP)

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On Monday, German software company SAP released a new crop of products, redesigned from the ground up to take advantage of its four-year-old database called HANA. “If this doesn’t work, we’re dead. Flat-out dead. It’s that simple,” SAPs charismatic 71-year-old founder and chairman Hasso Plattner told Re/Code’s Arik Hesseldahl after the launch. He’s not exaggerating.