{"slug": "eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks", "title": "EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks", "summary": "The European Union's competition decision has shifted leverage in contract negotiations to SAP customers, potentially allowing them to secure more favorable terms. The ruling addresses market dominance concerns and could impact SAP's licensing practices.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark\n\nDevelopers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic\n\nAnthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts\n\n50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers\n\n-\non-prem\n\n#### IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value\n\nCEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing\n\nToken consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan\n\n-\n#### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it\n\nNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server\n\n-\n#### KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives\n\n6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/15/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks/5271154", "published_at": "2026-07-15 10:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 10:50:38.464172+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["SAP", "European Union"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks.jsonld"}}