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Stock market breaks out mistletoe for Microsoft-SAP

Anonymous Coward

What about IBM? 

Posted Tuesday 4th December 2007 21:08 GMT

Alien

As wacky as this sounds, there is some logic behind it.... ;-)

Micha Roon

IBM is a service company 

Posted Tuesday 4th December 2007 23:20 GMT

Pirate

they should not do software anymore. the acquisition of Cognos was a mistake. lets hope they don't do the same with SAP

anyway, with a, say, 20% premium that would put the price tag on SAP to allmost 80 billion. Maybe M$ has that kind of cash IBM does not.

amanfromMars

Money and/or Power ..... only one of them is just paper. 

Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 10:04 GMT

So if Microsoft want SAP does that suggest that SAP are a threat to Microsoft? After all, without Applications to run on, what good is Windows and with OS Agnosticity rendering Software and Hardware combinations and intercompatibility more and more a matter of personal subjective Taste/Style, having something for Systems to do is the neXXXXt Big thing?

Why sell out whenever you are in the driving seat and the race is yet to be run ..... unless of course, you still get to drive races all of the races, as you see fit, with sourcing from all sources ...... which would make it very attactive to any Predator/Shark/MetaDataMiner?