Cognos Does Not Rule Out Sale Of Company - of course not as everybody else has been sold already

Software maker Cognos has not ruled out a sale of the company, an executive told Reuters on Tuesday, after Germany's SAP said it planned to buy another rival. This is only logical and to me, IBM would be the logical choice or even HP that recently acquired Knightsbridge that is a BI consulting organization.

As former IBM business partner and BI independent software vendor, I think Cognos would fit well into IBM's strategy even if the Cognos acquisition would be on a larger scale than they usually do.

Former acquistions such as Alphabox etc. have been in the IBM's target group. I also believe these acquisitions will benefit Microsoft as they are building/have built a solid foundation their relational database technology. Also, with the release of PerformancePoint 2007, Microsoft will have a better chance of competing in the business performance management, budgeting/forecasting and dashboard implementations. It looks like that the large independent business intelligence players are going away and will become part of the large ERP vendor offering. The big question will be how the market is going to look like after this? I have an idea and will blog about this later.read more digg story