SAP Tibco Tie Up
August 10, 2009
Short honk: SAP, according to Thomson Reuters, may be doing a bit of high school prom planning. “Germany’s SAP Considering Offer for Tibco” reminded me that I have not been updating my information about SAP’s TREX search system. What? You are not using this tool in your SharePoint centric implementation of SAP R/3?
The Thomson Reuters’ story stated:
German software maker SAP (SAPG.DE) is considering bidding for US software firm Tibco (TIBX.O), German weekly Wirtschaftwoche reported on Saturday, citing a source close to talks between the two companies.
Tibco does plumbing and it works. Tibco’s technology has been kept current but it, like Google, has its roots in the late 1990s. There may be alternatives that Tibco cannot embrace because of the engineering costs. SAP, on the other hand, is an enterprise software vendor of interesting complexity, cost, and resource consumption.
Will a tie up with Tibco put SAP on a growth track? I think it would have in the pre-2008 financial meltdown era. In today’s business climate, I am inclined to assert a gentle “No, no, I do not think so.”
Stephen Arnold, August 9, 2009
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