Acquisitions

However hard it might be to find a friend, it is much harder to keep the friendship going. Now, on the other side, it is interesting that while creating an enemy might be easy, deleting him might cost us lots of energy and other fine resources. Let's apply this fact to the reality or, more precisely, to the real business world. The German software company SAP offered 4.8 billion of Euros to its French competitor Business Objects on October 8, this offer being the biggest one of SAP's acquisitions so far. This action had been launched by the recent drop in SAP's sales and it is supposed to bring thousands of new customers into view. This launch should be done before the first quarter of 2008. Was SAP only trying to increase its powers or was this offer only a sign of revenge? Some examples of small powers joining giants: Oracle bought Hyperion (however, the offer was smaller), the next purchasers (or expanders) could be either of two other software giants - IBM or Hewlett-Packard. These collaborations are crucial for the software society and beneficial for the society as a whole. More people in team mean more ideas and the new, more powerful environment sparks new views plus is able to support the more expensive experiments and innovations. We have to upgrade in order to survive & so why do this by liaisons and use it for deleting enemies?

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by Barbie Kunkelova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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