Analysts say the activist investor will want to put the ERP company on the block
The deal could be a response to SAP's move to acquire Sybase
Improvements to system availability and a new SAP export tool are highlights
The brainchild of database luminary Michael Stonebraker is an open-source option for large-scale transaction processing
Analysts speculate that SAP will continue upgrading and selling most of Sybase's products -- while increasing license fees.
The deal will give Big Blue even more data-integration middleware
Will showcase reference customer running ERP on the Vblock architecture created by Cisco, EMC and VMware
The upcoming systems could prove to be Oracle Exadata rivals
Snabe and McDermott's Sapphire keynote was short on news but big on vision
The vendor is set to pay $5.8 billion for Sybase, an amount some analysts say is too high
