SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion

Re:SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion by imack on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @06:39PM (#1342500)

This makes sense given that MySQL is a property of Oracle now. SAP likely wants their own database in order to not be dependent.

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Re:SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion by jkent on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @06:47PM (#1342530)

SAP own the free DBMS MaxDB - so aren't exactly dependent, although Sybase have a much more diverse product range. Interesting developments in the enterprise space.

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Re:SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion by lenni on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @06:45PM (#1342524)

Does SAP run on MySQL? I never used SAP but it seems 'enterprisey' enough to demand some pretty special DB.

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Re:SAP to Buy Sybase for $5.25 Billion by SilianRail on Monday May 17, 2010 @01:48PM (#1354974)

Basically 90% of their customers are on Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL. Apparently they tried something with MySQL (http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=2208) but never went anywhere.

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