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• SAP invests in LinkedIn

  SAP's venture capital arm has sunk an undisclosed sum of money into LinkedIn, the business-oriented social-networking site.

• SAP wants judge to limit scope of TomorrowNow suit

  SAP has asked a U.S. District court judge in California to throw out some of the claims Oracle has made in a lawsuit filed over SAP's subsidiary, TomorrowNow, charging that Oracle is trying to bog down proceedings.

• Cisco, SAP launch joint cross-layer composite application

  In an atmosphere where government fines for breaches in privacy regulations are increasing, SAP and Cisco unveiled this week Data Privacy Composite Application by SAP and Cisco at the SAP TechEd conference in Berlin.

• Oracle and SAP fail to settle TomorrowNow lawsuit

  Oracle and SAP held settlement talks Monday in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement that would end the case, an SAP spokeswoman said.

• Analyst: Demand for SAP skills keeps rising

  The ongoing demand for workers skilled in SAP technologies grew dramatically stronger in recent months, according to Foote Partners, an analyst firm that tracks pay rates for IT jobs.

• New Business Objects user group forming

  The Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) is forming a new global community for customers of Business Objects, the business intelligence vendor that SAP bought earlier this year, the organization announced this week.

• SAP extends maintenance deal to R/3 customers

  Thousands of enterprises still running SAP R/3 have been given an extra year to decide whether to upgrade to the latest version of the ERP system.