1) vnunet.com: SAP will back .Net: German software giant SAP AG said it would back both Microsoft's .Net strategy and rival Sun Microsystems' Java technology, rebutting reports this week that SAP would give its full backing to the Sun platform.SAP North American spokesperson Bill Wohl said a lot of interest had been created by the inaccurate and incomplete newspaper story. "We've spent the last 24 hours trying to balance it." According to Wohl, the UK's Financial Times got the story wrong; they relied on the wrong sources.

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2) SAP Chooses Sun Micro Platform Over Microsoft : SAP, Europe's biggest software group, has decided not to use Microsoft's .Net software platform and is instead backing a competing offering from Sun Microsystems. Hasso Plattner, SAP chief executive, will announce next week that the German group is to adopt Sun's J2EE architecture, a development platform for enterprise software based on the Java programming language, to run SAP software. SAP's move is likely to be a blow to Microsoft, as the German group has one of the largest customer bases of any business software developer.

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