SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

Why not? Sybase makes both databases, and works in the telecom messaging space. What a merger with SAP might mean is interesting, will SAP kill off the telecom part of the business and focus on the financial vertical? Sounds like a great place for a new startup!

Re: SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

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Post by thwarted » Mon, May 17, 2010, 5:08 PM UTC

When did linking to press releases warrant a post here? Leave that to the likes of Computerworld magazine.

Re: SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

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Post by ximeng » Mon, May 17, 2010, 5:28 PM UTC

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1342370

Re: SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, May 17, 2010, 5:43 PM UTC

elblanco wrote: post #4

rbanffy wrote: post #3

I could not imagine something that has less to do with hacker news than this.

Why not? Sybase makes both databases, and works in the telecom messaging space. What a merger with SAP might mean is interesting, will SAP kill off the telecom part of the business and focus on the financial vertical? Sounds like a great place for a new startup!

You would need serious funding to enter that space.

Re: SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

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Post by jheriko » Mon, May 17, 2010, 5:56 PM UTC

Its sad when a company like SAP, that produces such god awful, trivial to improve, software has $5.8 billion to throw around - these guys need to go down if we are ever going to see an improvement in enterprise management relational resource buzzword whatever-it-is software (business software).

Its a shame start-ups are pretty much doomed to fail in that environment because businesses trust established names over demonstrable results - its just common sense from their side really.

Re: SAP To Acquire Sybase For $5.8 Billion

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Post by elblanco » Mon, May 17, 2010, 6:20 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #7

elblanco wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? Sybase makes both databases, and works in the telecom messaging space. What a merger with SAP might mean is interesting, will SAP kill off the telecom part of the business and focus on the financial vertical? Sounds like a great place for a new startup!

You would need serious funding to enter that space.

True, but before Sybase got into it, it was a startup called Mobile 365. And there are several other startups in the telco space like these guys http://openet.com/.

Not disagreeing, just saying it's fully possible, and quite relevant to a board like this one.