I think this figure (50%) is and will be affected in a positive way by this. R/3 installations built on 'commodity' Intel-based hardware have traditionally used NT as that's all that was available as a supported platform for R/3. Now Linux is here, that will change. If not just for the choice aspect. Compaq are also of course interested in this.
Jon Udell talks a lot about groupware solutions using 'simple' Internet protocols such as NNTP and HTTP. Collaboration tools, examples and discussions of this are available in his new book Practical Internet Groupware - see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracintgr/ for more details.
This may help, and fit in nicely with the move to Linux. Good luck
dj (not related to Jon, just interested in what he has to say).
That's certainly an odd 'understanding' you have there. As an engineer/hacker through and through, my opinion is the opposite, and so is that of all my colleagues. Look at SAP (R/2 or R/3) from a technical standpoint (architecture, technical design, realisation) and you can't deny it's a very well engineered system-/application software.
Perhaps as a user ("we use SAP at my work") your view is different.
Hackers crying while using SAP? Maybe they didn't know what they were doing. Change your hackers.;-)
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If the bug fires up the phone line to your ISP, it's using phone charges (and possibly ISP charges) without your permission.
Ahem.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99 /03/01/1115235.shtml
I think this figure (50%) is and will be affected in a positive way by this. R/3 installations built on 'commodity' Intel-based hardware have traditionally used NT as that's all that was available as a supported platform for R/3. Now Linux is here, that will change. If not just for the choice aspect. Compaq are also of course interested in this.
dj
Jon Udell talks a lot about groupware solutions using 'simple' Internet protocols such as NNTP and HTTP. Collaboration tools, examples and discussions of this are available in his new book Practical Internet Groupware - see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracintgr/ for more details.
This may help, and fit in nicely with the move to Linux. Good luck
dj (not related to Jon, just interested in what he has to say).
That's certainly an odd 'understanding' you have there. As an engineer/hacker through and through, my opinion is the opposite, and so is that of all my colleagues. Look at SAP (R/2 or R/3) from a technical standpoint (architecture, technical design, realisation) and you can't deny it's a very well engineered system-/application software.
;-)
Perhaps as a user ("we use SAP at my work") your view is different.
Hackers crying while using SAP? Maybe they didn't know what they were doing. Change your hackers.
dj adams