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Analyst: Oracle-IBM Partnership Could Challenge SAP - Forbes.com: "We are hearing feedback from a number of our industry sources that the two companies may be close to forming an alignment between IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people )'s Global Services and software divisions with Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people )'s applications group,' said Jason Maynard, an analyst for the research firm and the author of the report.
'The ramifications of this potential partnership are significant as it would be a huge boost to Oracle's applications business and improve their competitive position against SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ),' said the resaerch analyst."