 Does SAP work under Linux?
Friday, 4 November 2005
Linux has copped a bit of bad press just recently. Well, Red Hat Australia have, anyway.
Apparently, after spending two weeks configuring the SAP software for Crest Electronics (the client), Red Hat were unable to resolve the sporadic crashes that kept occurring. Finally, after some seven months, the client (rightly) gave up being patient and switched to running their SAP software under Windows 2003 Server.
Anthony Horton, the IT manager at Crest had this to say about the failed experiment:
“The installation of SAP took two days on Windows, the installation on Linux Red Hat took two weeks. The total cost of ownership is actually lower in this case than with Linux because of the hidden costs of the support.”
Two weeks? Really?
Sounds like this might have been Red Hat’s virgin SAP installation, I’d say. It’s just not possible for the job to take anywhere near that amount of time, if it only took two days under Windows.
Unless, of course, it was done by inexperienced people. Or perhaps SAP never worked under Red Hat to begin with?
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