A wonderful discussion of MDX and BICS interfaces

The question is raised here

http://www.bluefinsolutions.com/insights/blog/is_sap_deliberately_locking_out_competitors_with_bi4/

Is SAP deliberately locking out competitors with BI4?

And here is the response from BW production manager of SAP

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/23784

 

As far as I know "SOFA" is BOBJ's framework before SAP acquired BusinessObjects