Water-cooler sessions at SAP are expected to become more intense in the next month as the world's largest business applications vendor debates the future of its chief executive officer.

With his contract set to expire at the end of the year, there has been much debate over whether CEO Henning Kagermann would seek another term. But a partial solution will be floated next month, when the supervisory board for the software behemoth meets on February 15.

At the meeting, Hasso Plattner, SAP's co-founder and the chairman of its 16-member supervisory board, will propose that Kagermann's contract be extended through the end of 2008, SAP spokesman Steve Bauer said Tuesday.

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