“SAP plans to ship its first R/3 business suite running on the
Linux operating system to customers in the third quarter of this
year, the company said at the Cebit show in Hannover this
week.”
“The German software house got a raft of companies to back its
Linux initiative, including Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and
Siemens.”
“He added that it was waiting for version 2.0 of Linux which SAP
would be able to integrate more tightly with R/3 and be ready to
sell Linux-R/3 systems by the third quarter.”