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SAP DB Database To Be GPLed?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-news dept.

martin-k writes: "German newsticker www.heise.de reports that SAP will announce tomorrow the GPL release of SAP DB, a database based on Software AG's Adabas. Have a look at www.heise.de but be sure to have Babelfish handy - it's in German." Babelfish is at Altavista - but the translation is bad. As far as I can tell, it sounds like they are expecting the announcement tomorrow, at LinuxWorld Germany, with the license being either the GPL or the LGPL. If you are fluent in German, please post a little more in the comments. From what I can tell it's not their flagship, but one of the parts of one, or another database?

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  1. Re:something like a translation by Dilbert_ · · Score: 3

    With iTranslator I get this translation...

    SAP goes OpenSource The SAP wants to care after c't-Informationen for the LinuxWorld in Frankfurt known tomorrow that she/it her/its/their data bank SAP DB under the GPL respectively LGPL will put. The SQL-Datenbank come in the connection with the flagship of the Walldorfer company, him/it, until now mainly Merchandise-economic system SAP R3, to the usage. R3 offers however also matching units for others Data banks like Informix, Oracle or DB2. With SAP DB, the SAP gives a bigger for the first time Software-project in the source code free.

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  2. SAP DB ~= Adabas-D by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 4
    SAP DB was previously known as Adabas-D, which, in the venerable past, was one of the original databases on which R/3 ran.

    In the even more ancient past (which is really quite some time ago; possibly before some readers were born!), the mainframe-based R/2 system was able to use Adabas on mainframes.

    If SAP DB is GPLed (or LGPLed), this is a very interesting thing, probably moreso than the "freeing" of Interbase, as Adabas-D was more like a "scaled down mainframe system" than like a "scaled up PC system."

    Another interesting property of Adabas-D that is hopefully inherited by "Free-SAP-DB" is that it provides an Oracle SQL compatibility mode that tries hard to provide equivalent functionality to Oracle... Probably useful for porting Oracle apps over to it...

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  3. english translation by step · · Score: 3
    SAP goes OpenSource

    According to informations from the german computer magazine c't, the SAP company will make an announcement tomorrow at the LinuxWorld conference in Frankfurt. They will publish their database ('SAP DB') under the GPL (or LGPL) license. Up to now, this database has been mainly used together with the company's flagship product, SAP R3. However, R3 also provides interfacing to other database systems like Informix, Oracle or DB2. SAP DB is the first large scale software product whose source code has been made public by SAP.

  4. SAP DB is dead? by wharfrat · · Score: 3

    SAP themselves do not develop on SAP DB. SAP themselves use DB2 for all development.

    It seems to me that they are doing this for not because it is a good product but they do not want to develop it anymore.

    Most SAP instalations do run on Oracle, DB2 or MS-SQL.

    This is big news as it is the first ERP database to be GPLed.

  5. Far from SAP's flagship by pingflood · · Score: 3
    The DB ships with the SAP R/3 system, which is their main product. However, most any company will quickly and swiftly replace this DB with a good commercial one such as Oracle for use with R/3. IOW, it ain't that great.

    -pf

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