The mobility infrastructure from the Sybase acquisition and the HANA in-memory database represent the other two major platforms.

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They are doubling the addressable market for SAP by going after three new target markets: Mobile (thus their acquisition of Sybase.) Second, HANA in-memory database technology.

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Since our story, Sybase, Informix and IBM have announced that they would sell database software for Linux systems.

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