SAP scrapped the free trial that let anyone learn ABAP without a contract. Downloads stop 17 November, no licence extensions.

Also in 30 seconds: Monster Beverage's $14.7 million of digital overhaul costs in one quarter, SAP included, and ServiceNow's $9.17 billion of acquisitions that turned net cash into net debt.

1. SAP said in a community blog post on Friday that the downloadable ABAP Cloud developer trial will not return. It let developers run SAP's development system on their own machines and learn ABAP, SAP's programming language, without a customer or partner contract. Copies already running work until their developer licences expire, and SAP says those licences can no longer be extended. SAP points developers to its hosted free tier instead, and named no prices beyond the free options.

2. Monster Beverage booked $14.7 million of digital transformation costs in the third quarter for a programme that includes its move to SAP S/4HANA, SAP's current business software, with a planned go-live of 1 January 2028, chief executive Hilton Schlosberg told analysts on 5 November, according to a Motley Fool transcript. The company gave no total budget and no SAP-only figure.

3. ServiceNow, the US maker of IT service software, spent $9.17 billion on seven acquisitions in nine months, its third-quarter filing shows, moving from about $8.56 billion of net cash at the end of 2025 to about $563 million of net debt by 30 September, Calcalist's CTech reported on Sunday. It still holds about $7 billion of cash and securities against $7.5 billion of debt.

Does your team still run an ABAP trial system on its own machines?

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