"We will build applications on our platform; the world at large will build applications upon our platform. And there are native applications that will be ground-up applications we will build," he said. It is that openness that SAP is contrasting with other vendor views. Sikka again hammered at vendor product stacks. "Ever since we were founded in the 1970s, we have heard about these large intergalactic end-to-end stacks," he said and added that SAP believes companies' technology landscapes will remain permanently heterogeneous. And he again voiced SAP's belief in in-memory databases as a hot technology. Such databases, which will be available to Business By Design, let all fields of a database be searched instantly.