SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to form a joint lab in Germany in an effort to tie the SAP Business Suite more closely with Microsoft's SQL Server 2005.
The company running the German railway system has moved half of its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of this year.
Oracle has promised there would no immediate change to Hyperion's product plans following its US$3.3 billion buyout of the business intelligence vendor.
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday.
Software maker SAP on Thursday recruited Microsoft and IBM as part of a new initiative to simplify how companies build their business systems.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. But what do all the smiles amount to beyond the teaming of two of the industry's biggest players?
SAP may not be a household name, but it's the third largest independent software company, and has a powerful franchise. But in recent times, a confluence of economic trends threaten its enviable position.
Software maker SAP plans to release by month's end a new set of data integration technologies that could set up a clash with other companies in the business of stitching together incompatible software.
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