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When I spoke to Paul Clark of Business Objects last March at the Gartner Business Intelligence conference, he said there was no way the Paris-based company would become part of a larger entity. They valued their independence. The company's buy of Inxight Software as well as Cartesis in the last year seemed to indicate a continued, sustained interest in steering the ship.

That is, until now. Reports out of Reuters yesterday has the company looking for a buyer, and SAP is said to be interested, along with Oracle and IBM, of course. Goldman Sachs has been called in to find the company a new investor.

In typical Business Objects fashion, the company says this is a rumor. And they said they don't report on rumors. More info on "the rumor" here.

Stock in Business Objects rose today on this news. More to follow as it comes.

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