SAP Wants to be a (Linux-Powered) Database Company

"The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too. SAP today announced a series of initiatives that will further enable its database efforts, including the in-memory HANA and Sybase database technologies.

At the core of SAP's HANA database push is the Linux operating system, which is the only operating system on which the in-memory database will run.

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