Reuters reports that Sharp has signed an agreement with Germany's SAP to develop mobile devices with database access.

“A spokesman for Sharp said the companies would initially target corporate users in Germany as Sharp is set to launch its Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant), a palm-sized mobile device, in Europe . . .”

Sharp plans to launch Zaurus in both Europe and the United States later this month.

SAP provides Internet business solutions such as customer relationship management (CRM) applications for not only the enterprise, but wireless devices. Through the “SAP LinuxLab”, the company actively works with hardware partners, service organizations, database suppliers and the open source community to provide support for Linux.

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