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Re:What’s happening to the next generation of the SAP ecosys... by arethuza on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:07AM (#2661063)
My impression of the Tier-1 ERP systems is that they are effectively software mainframes.
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Re:What’s happening to the next generation of the SAP ecosys... by mbesto on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:19AM (#2661107)
It depends on your definition. As I understand it, mainframes are a 2 tiered approach (client-server). SAP, like most systems today are built in a 3 tiered approach (client-application-server). So much of what changed in the mainframe days shifted most of the processing to the application layer, rather than logic purely built on a massive database.

The software is good in a sense that it gets it's job done. For example, should an application that completes financial transactions for one company be any different for another? This is why companies continue to buy SAP. Usability is a big issue from the client side.

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Re:What’s happening to the next generation of the SAP ecosys... by arethuza on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:37AM (#2661163)
"Tier-1 ERP" means the big boys (SAP, JDE, maybe MS Dynamics AX) not a software architecture.
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