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All Eyes Will Be On SAP At Its Sapphire Customer Conference -- SAP -- InformationWeek: "That NetWeaver is a leading middleware offering for helping businesses solve their integration problems. Graf cited a Morgan Stanley survey in January of CIOs that showed 16% of respondents having purchased NetWeaver in the past year, compared with 13% who purchased IBM middleware and 4% who purchased Oracle middleware. NetWeaver was outranked only by Microsoft, with 17%. That's a big reversal from a comparable survey by Morgan Stanley in 2004, which showed SAP with just 4% of middleware purchases, Graf said, adding that SAP believes it can beat Microsoft for accounts where Java plays a big part in development. 'We have a tremendous amount of customers using NetWeaver as an integration platform,' Graf said, even if most aren't yet using it as a foundation for a service-oriented architecture. "