Rimini Street goes after SAP support

Rimini Street, which is a third party maintenance and support vendor, said Monday that it is launching services for SAP customers. 

Rimini, which has typically offered third party support for Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software, appears to be trying to take advantage of the well publicized angst over SAP support costs (statement). SAP recently backtracked on its maintenance fees after customers protested.