SAP and Novell: More Open Source Goodness?
October 4, 2010
We know people using SAP applications are concerned about complexity in its deployments. Here’s a solution that waters down the issue, as reported in the SiliconRepublic.com article “Novell and SAP in Linux Application Alliance.” Yet another novel innovation from Novell, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, improves on the reliability and ease of management of SAP applications on Linux, in collaboration with SAP.
“This latest offering dramatically simplifies and accelerates the deployment of physical and virtual mission-critical workloads for users of SAP solutions,” details the article, adding that the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also reduces the installation time and cost. Among the many SAP applications that benefit from this collaboration is the NetWeaver Search, which looks for its revival with this alliance. We view this development as crucial to increased user acceptance of SAP applications, but we also sense SAPs growing intimacy with open source. Is the aging retrieval system looking for a new breather in open source?
Harleena Singh, October 9, 2010
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