This week IT Week's band of furry trouble makers tried really had to get bought out by SAP. We did everything we could to help them out – even going so far as to describe them as business intelligence tools. Admittedly this was a bit of an exaggeration – but hey, it's marketing – what did you expect?

SAP was presumably a bit skint after swallowing up Business Objects, but to send the monkeys back in the same barrel, leaving us to pay the excess postage? Well, that wouldn’t be on in anyone's book.

Ho hum. We tried our hardest to keep them in the barrel but it turns out that they have mastered the use of tiny saws – bad news for us – and were able to free themselves in minutes.

We wasted no time in putting their new skills to use, so currently the simians are constructing some new kitchen units. Well, they call it a trebuchet, but we think it’s the same thing.

News:
SAP takes on BI with Business Objects purchase

German software giant SAP has announced plans to acquire business intelligence (BI) solutions vendor Business Objects, at a cost of 4.8bn Euros. We guess that the purchase will make a lot of difference to the services and tools that the firm offers, but very little to the company name. SAPBO doesn't have a very good ring about it at all.

More news:
Sun's hypervisor is better late than ever
Only in this industry, and perhaps in the helmet manufacturing business, would people get excited about visors - whether they are hyper or otherwise. This however, is not Motorcycle Helmets week, but IT Week, so of course this article is about server virtualization. Oooh.

This is also news:
Google moves further into enterprises
Google's new search appliance is still yellow, still a bit more interesting looking than the average, and still comes with the cachet of the Google name. So why don't you own one yet? Maybe the new features in version 5 will push you over the, er, edge.. Version 5 extends the firm's enterprise connector framework to third party enterprise content management systems such as EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet and Microsoft SharePoint. Which is one of the most boring statements you will read in this email.

Analysis:
PDAs back in favour in the enterprise
Apparently the handheld computer has gone the same way as dodos, hula hoops, the Krankies, puffball skirts, and piano-key ties, they are a bit out of mode. But, not anymore. Several companies have unveiled new models that follow the traditional Pocket PC form factor, stating that they expect to see growth in demand for this style of device in the enterprise. Can you hear the sound of fingers being crossed?

IT Week Podcast
David Neal and Phil Muncaster discuss National Identity Fraud Prevention week. Well, we think it was those two. To be fair, it could be anyone.

Sneak:
This week Sneak wonders why people are so keen on creating new tsars. Don't they realise what a tough time Nicholas II had of it?

Green Business News
The blog matures into a fully fledged site this week. To celebrate the greenies ran round the office turning everyone's monitors off. To be fair they do that every day, but on launch day they did it smiling. Hooray for Businessgreen.com. welcome to the family.

Lem Bingley blog
Lem has been making people paranoid. We told him to wear dark clothing when he goes out on his midnight missions.