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Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)Posted Sep 29, 2005 21:45 UTC (Thu) by ninjaz (guest, #2083)Parent article: Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)
This looks like the main problem: "You have to be using the right certified components, otherwise SAP won't give you the support."
Having worked as a Unix system administrator for a decade, I have routinely seen vendor requirements which called for specific patchlevels. Unfortunately, they usually weren't updated to allow for security and bug fixes. It really is a nightmare to be caught a catch-22 where the "Enterprise Solution" software vendor won't support the OS because it's not their product, but demands a broken patchlevel of the OS as a prerequisite for providing support.
Of course, this type of vendor behavior is by no means limited to Linux. I have seen the same with other vendor operating systems as well.
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Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age) Posted Sep 30, 2005 15:19 UTC (Fri) by ken_i_m (guest, #4938) [Link] ninjaz hits it on the head. We have been running SAP on Red Hat for almost two years now. We do not have instability problems. Yet from a security point of view the patchlevel required by SAP is "dated" to say the least. So, we treat the SAP servers like Windows... lots of perimeter security wrapped around them.
Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age) Posted Sep 30, 2005 19:39 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link] The problem appears to be with the SAP product rather than any version of Linux. If SAP wanted such specific requirements, why don't they supply their own version of Linux bundled with their product?
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