Despite the long-running rivalry between the two companies, SAP and Oracle announced a working relationship on Exadata certification a year ago.
SAP last year launched its own in-memory computing platform, HANA (high performance analytic appliance), and the company has also been pushing its Sybase ASE database as an alternative to Oracle for its ERP applications.
Oracle Exadata 2 is an in-memory computing platform for database and database-based applications. It provides high performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications.