Rumors: Microsoft to buy SAP?

Writing by Jorgen on Monday, 10 of December , 2007 at 8:26 am

Take a look at this post on the Eweek website:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2227695,00.asp

Reuters wrote on December 4th: ´Shares in software maker SAP extended gains and hit the day’s high on Monday as traders cited market talk of bid interest from Microsoft. SAP declined comment”. If this is true it would be an interesting wave in the latest developments in the BI vendor consolidation tsunami. I asked Ron Torrico, the Microsoft BI Guru Online within Capgemini, for his opinion. Here are his two cents. He expects there will be a clash of cultures, therefore he suggests operating the companies as two separate entities. In his opinion SAP can benefit from the technology know how within Microsoft. But SAP has been investing in integration with IBM Websphere, which is not the core-competence of the guys in Redmond.On the business side, positioning Dynamics for the small, medium business and SAP for the Enterprise level sounds like a good plan. You can be sure that Larry (Oracle) will be pissed off. It may also encourage SAP to be more open. So again, as many of the recent acquisitions, it seems that market share is again the major driver behind this and not so much the technology.

Category: BI Tools, BI vendor consolidation, Business Objects, Microsoft, Outlooksoft, SAP

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