Reuters news service reports that Sharp Electronics and SAP AG, a maker of collaborative business application software, are partnering to give mobile corporate users remote access to SAP's business software apps using Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDAs. The alliance is the first such partnership for SAP with a mobile hardware manufacturer, the story said.

Sharp, which shipped about 140,000 Zaurus PDAs in Japan in 2002 (according to Gartner Japan), hopes to use the alliance with SAP to gain global sales of up to 500,000 Zaurus PDAs among mobile enterprise customers, the story said.

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