Thursday, May 13, 2010

SAP to acquire Sybase

That was the news of the day and I wonder like many of you what SAP was expecting by spending 6 billions for such acquisition ?

The answer is obvious :

1 - to provide non relational database : Sybase IQ to SAP customers as an alternative to Oracle and also to provide end-to-end BI solution like its competitors did (IBM, Oracle)
2 - to consolidate the mobile offer with Sybase middleware stack

But then again 6 billions isn't too much ? the answer is let's wait for the stock market opening tomorrow.

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