SAP and SAS to Extend the Power of the Real-Time Enterprise With Strategic Partnership

The news passed very quietly, I wonder what this will mean in the future for KXEN and PA? Is this SAS partnership really required to make HANA more popular? Will SAS become a takeover target? To big to swallow at 2.9 billion revenue - buy for 12billion?

http://global.sap.com/news-reader/index.epx?category=ALL&articleID=21767

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