SAP may make Retek 'less friendly' to Oracle
Oracle is determined to buy application developer Retek from under SAP's nose because it is worried that the German firm could rewrite Retek's applications and make them less friendly for Oracle users, according to Oracle's chairman Jeff Henley.The database software giant, which just completed a US$10 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft in January, is muscling in on SAP's bid to buy software maker Retek, by beating its rival's US$8.