SRO: Where's The [Linux] Enterprise App Beef? | Linux Today

SRO: Where’s The [Linux] Enterprise App Beef?

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 27, 1999

“Some IT professionals, smelling the sizzle of enterprise Linux
applications without seeing shipping products, have been asking
that age-old question, ‘where’s the beef’?

According to SAP AG, the beef, in the form of SAP R/3 on
Linux, is here.

R/3–one of the Rolls-Royces of top enterprise software–is
available on Linux? Yes. And SAP plans to follow up its August SAP
R/3 roll out with SAP Business Information Warehouse and SAP
Business-to-Business Procurement, both of which will serve as
components for a Linux version of mySAP.com.”

“Why are SAP customers contemplating a move to Linux? Platform
independence and low cost Linux and Intel enterprise
solutions…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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