SAP will be killed after 2008 as Oracle and Microsoft are coming with better warehousing and Analysis services. SAP will be eliminated completely from usa within 2011.SAP was competent against Oracle until last year, this year oracle left sap way behind. SAP succeeded because Oracle kept on pushing for new versions 8i,9i 10g etc with more licensing push until 2005.Now they are coming with 11g next year with a single platform for warehousing,reporting,functional,db admin all in one product which you can use from a single console.SAP's biggest strength has been on the erp side,oracle's push for integrated product in 11g will eliminate sap completely by 2011,that's the oracle's practice managers are saying at least for now.