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    SAP may license HANA to Oracle in future - co-CEO

    SAP-CEO:SAP may license HANA to Oracle in future - co-CEO
    January 30, 2012 / 14:54 IST

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP , the world's largest maker of business software, may license its HANA offering to main rival Oracle in the future, its co-chief executive told a German newspaper.

    "That would be possible. The question is whether Oracle can imagine it," the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper quoted Bill McDermott in an interview published on Monday.

    "But seriously: a technological platform is not a real platform if it were not open to partners and even competitors. Partners like Cisco , Dell , Fujitsu <6702.T> or Hewlett-Packard already work with our HANA technology. We are open to everything."

    SAP's HANA offering allows companies to analyse business data quickly and has been a major performance driver in the fourth quarter of 2011.

    (Reporting by Christoph Steitz, Editing by Mark Potter)

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