Oracle Gets SAP'ed by IBM
M. Reed - December 8, 1999

Event Summary

'WALLDORF, Germany, and SOMERS, N.Y. - Dec. 7, 1999 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM), the worldwide leader in data management solutions, today announced an agreement to expand their global sales, marketing and development relationship. As part of this agreement, the two companies will work together to provide expanded choices for customers that wish to implement mySAP.com Internet business solutions and IBM's DB2 Universal Database on a variety of hardware platforms. These platforms include Windows 2000, in addition to the already available solutions for Sun Microsystems, Linux, Windows NT and IBM's RS/6000, AS/400 and S/390 platforms. Through this expanded partnership, customers can now take advantage of broader flexibility for a wider choice of hardware platforms when using IBM DB2 with SAP« solutions. In addition, customers will not have to incur the time or expense of changing their existing hardware platforms when porting to DB2 databases for SAP solutions.'..