Re:SQL Server on Linux public preview
by kriro on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:33AM
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Will be very interesting to see how this affects SAP installations. AFAIK the only database options were SQL Server and Oracle. Granted it's been >5 years since I had to deal with this mess but this could be amazing news for some people on SAP who were pretty much forced to run Windows just for the database.
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Re:SQL Server on Linux public preview
by albinary10 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:44AM
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In fact, this is not the case.
Actually, besides ORACLE and MS SQL Server you can use also DB2 and other SAP's own DB products(MAXDB, Sybase, HANA).
I am talking about ERP and CRM, the main products.
Anyway, this is a very interesting news. Given the "not so good" relationship between SAP and Oracle, this option will give SQL Server a boost when it comes to SAP Customers, although it may take some time for SAP to fully support the Linux-MSSQL option.
Re:SQL Server on Linux public preview
by jimnotgym on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:39PM
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SAP Business One is available with SQL server or HANNA. In fact resellers I have been talking to seem to have been instructed to sell HANNA first. I was told with the trade-off of more expensive hardware (HANNA) against more expensive licensing (SQL Server) it would come in about the same cost, but with the advantages of an in-memory database (especially when it comes to analytics) going to HANNA.