At Ringside of PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize.

Reports on the interest of SAP, Europe's largest software company and the world's leading supplier of business software, in the takeover battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft. View that the turmoil among SAP's competitors may cause it to become more powerful within the software market, both in software development and in business software; Hopes of SAP to pick up some customers from PeopleSoft, Oracle, and J.D. Edwards; Way that SAP is positioning itself as a stable company in a market which is in turmoil in the hopes of attracting customers.