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IBM buys Cognos for $5bn

Anonymous Coward

Buys congress? 

I misread the headline as "IBM buys Congress for $5bn" and wondered when they sold it such that they need to buy it back.

david gomm

So, IBM aren't buying SAP then ? 

There has been a fair amount of speculation recently that IBM might buy SAP, if there were going to do this then they would be inheriting BO so they wouldn't need to be spending money on Cognos......