Oracle to beat SAP with $3.3B Hyperion stick

OK, so maybe they're just softening them up before closing in for the kill. Here's the money quote from Chuck Phillips:

"Oracle already has PeopleSoft HR, Siebel CRM, G-Log, Demantra, i-flex, Oracle Retail, and Oracle Fusion Middleware installed at SAP's largest ERP customers. Now Oracle's Hyperion software will be the lens through which SAP's most important customers view and analyze their underlying SAP ERP data."

Wow. Here's CRN coverage, NY Times, and C/Net.