IBM has denied it's a copycat after it joined Oracle and SAP with its own business intelligence software buy. Today it announced plans to buy Canadian outfit Cognos for $5bn cash. IBM's move comes as little surprise, however, after SAP bought Business Objects and Oracle snaffled Hyperion earlier this year. Cognos was already …

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Tuesday 13th November 2007 10:44 GMT Anonymous Coward

Buys congress?

I misread the headline as "IBM buys Congress for $5bn" and wondered when they sold it such that they need to buy it back.

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Tuesday 13th November 2007 11:34 GMT david gomm

So, IBM aren't buying SAP then ?

There has been a fair amount of speculation recently that IBM might buy SAP, if there were going to do this then they would be inheriting BO so they wouldn't need to be spending money on Cognos......

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