Re: OT -- SAP and IBM

I believe that they have already made the tie up here in Australia, I am surprised that we might have been first or nearly first with something like this.

Oh well

Peter

At 03:51 AM 11/06/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>FYI,
>
>I saw a link to this Yahoo news item on a Canadian news website
>(www.bourque.com): <http://www.bourque.com):>
>
>Monday, June 11 5:42 PM SGT
>SAP, IBM to unveil e-commerce alliance in next few days: report
>FRANKFURT, June 11 (AFP) -
>German software giant SAP and US computer giant IBM are expected to announce
>a comprehensive tie-uip in the area of e-commerce software in the coming
>days, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Monday.
>The alliance, between SAP's new US unit SAP Portals Inc and the global
>services and business solutions arm of IBM, was expected to be announced at
>the SAP trade fair, Sapphire, which opens in Orlando on Tuesday, the
>newspaper said, without revealing its sources.
>A spokesman for SAP was not immediately available to comment.
>
>The URL for that is
>http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asia
>/headlines/010611/technology/afp/SAP__IBM_to_unveil_e-commerce_alliance_in_n
>ext_few_days__report.html
><http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asi
>a/headlines/010611/technology/afp/SAP__IBM_to_unveil_e-commerce_alliance_in_
>next_few_days__report.html>
>
>Regards,
>Patrice Boivin
>Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
>Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
>Technology Services | Services technologiques
>Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique
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>
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