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With Oracle and SAP pitted against each other and Oracle turning in some impressive results for Q3 in September, everyone was waiting to see what SAP’s figures would produce. The figures show a profit after tax of US$ 697 million (€501 million), up 12% from Q3 last year, along with a few noteworthy comments.

For those looking to develop and implement horizontal portals, Gartner has recently published its Magic Quadrant report, which amongst other things, shows that with a shift towards Web 2.0, cloud and consumer facing portals, the number of viable vendors has dropped from more than 50 in 2003 to less than a dozen in 2010.

For SMB’s this week there were a number of new releases that should make it easier to work while mobile. Apart from a mobile Business By Design from SAP, Skype is now available to a limited extent on Android v2.1 and above. IBM has also been busy with online tax filing and hosted e-mail.

In the lofty environs of the executive suite at HP (news, site) a new name is being engraved on the top door!

New school year begins, and Microsoft has been very, very busy with upgrades to its Office Web Apps only two months after it is released. SAP, in the meantime, started reselling SteamServe’s document automation solution under a new name.

 Intrexx (news, site) from United Planet aims for the mobile admin with the latest features in its enterprise portal with both compact and professional versions available.

Three organizations recently reported on their real-life experiences with Enterprise 2.0, all the way from approaches to challenges. Unsurprisingly, these unique examples have a number of common roots that are certainly worth checking out if you too are on the brink of your enterprise adventure. 

In other news, apparently the Web died this week. Crap.

Open Text's (news, site) Q3 2010 showed some turbulence. Their Q4 and fiscal year 2010 results are not much different.

Here's something fun: SAP's first ever virtual reality show. An agency called Page One officially launched an interactive campaign for SAP (news, site), showcasing the power of Web engagement, social media marketing, and what happens when experts put their dukes up. 

For those that were wondering how long it would take SAP to put the screws on Sybase after the US$ 5.8 billion deal was closed in May, well the answer is immediately.

After all the criticism over the slow pace of development of its Business ByDesign Suite, SAP has finally released it with starter packs for SMB deployment. Also, new and cheap scanners can send documents directly into Google Docs.

While there have been a number of financial results releases over the past couple of weeks, one of the more interesting is from SAP (news, site),  not only because its software business is often used as a market indicator, but also because of the recent closure of the massive Sybase deal.

The acquisition of Sybase (news, site) by SAP (news, site) which was first announced in May, has passed the final hurdle after the European Commission gave it regulatory approval on Tuesday evening.

With the deadline for the deal fast approaching, the German software giant extended its offer deadline for its US$ 5.8 billion cash offer for Sybase shares pending approval. With EU approval now in the bag, the deal is due to finally close next Monday.

CoreMedia (news, site) is going around the "Portals are dead / portals are not dead" debate with the upcoming release of a new content management module built specifically for (the apparently struggling) SAP NetWeaver Portal users.

If there was a certain amount of hand-wringing at this year's IOUG conference over how Sun would integrate into Oracle’s (news, site) portfolio from a technology perspective, from the financial side there were no such discussions. The deal is being cited as one of the principal reasons why the software giant has seen its profits grow by 25% in the fourth quarter.