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SuSE, SAP team on customer support (News.com)

[Posted July 24, 2003 by cook]

News.com reports on a partnership between SuSE and the database company SAP. "The new support deal between the two companies is aimed at streamlining the process for customers who run SAP business software on the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. SuSE said those customers can now receive centralized support from engineers specifically trained in the combination of SuSE and SAP software. The engineers will provide assistance ranging from help with SAP applications to assistance with issues surrounding the Linux source code."

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"database company" SAP

Posted Jul 25, 2003 9:27 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link]

While SAP does indeed have a database system ("SAP DB"), it is not a database
company. They even put their database system under the GPL and recently transfered
support to MySQL AB because it is not their core business. The main product is the
enterprise application software mySAP, while lots of customers still run the predecessor
R/3.
Nevertheless, SAP DB is one of the best open source SQL database systems, having
some features like updateable join views not even in Oracle's product.