RFC and SAP with Perl, Python and RUBY without SE37

Where on Earth is Piers?: Write your own RFCs without using SE37!
SAP to misstep over programming interfaces???
I was reading about this recently, and they are moving closer to Microsoft in their desire for a closed development stack...

If you think this is a "Hack" then you're right - but as I've eluded to before - this is a Hackers (an artistic programmer as opposed to an nefarious evil-doer) response to the reluctance I have experienced from SAP, in the pursuit of extending the sophistication of integration of R/3 with scripting programming languages from the Open Source world. Further to this - I am noticing a worrying trend in Senior SAP Executive rhetoric with respect to Open Source, and am wondering if this is signalling a change in some of the founding principles that have carried SAP to such heights as it enjoys now.