答复: ERP System: SAP

[Xiaoqi]

Hi Florin,

Phil is right, it's true that Open Source will be very possible as future
alternative to Micro$oft platform from cost (TCO) perspective.

However, the most first thing is considering your whole enterprise
requirements as prerequisite, SAP is very important, but it's only the one
of the enterprise business and office applications. If we want to change the
OS platform, all of the related applications and services are relevant each
other.

For information, SAP user are depending Microsoft Excel very much, for file
uploading / downloading, spreadsheet display, printing, ... and SAP (depends
on the business process your ent. are using) has different interface to
other business application, simply to say, to your mail application, to your
OA application, then how those integration can still keep alive after Ubuntu
is up is also the key questions. 

And another thing need to notice, you cannot run existing SAP GUI for
Windows on your future Ubuntu directly, you can only use SAP GUI for Java,
that definitely cause some issues...

I have to say, it's not one easy journey, try to list down all of the
potential incompatible issues, with apple-to-apple comparison with your SAP
team.

Hope that do some initial reference, best regards,
Xiaoqi

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] 代表 Phil Bull
发送时间: 2010年7月6日 06:09
收件人: Florin Leahu
抄送: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
主题: Re: ERP System: SAP

Hi Florin,

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 02:08 -0700, Florin Leahu wrote:
> I am a future user of Ubuntu. I work for a multinational company in 
> the Purchasing Department. The system on which we work is an ERP 
> system called SAP. Is there any way to support such a system on Ubuntu 
> in the future? This will, from my point of view, help spread Ubuntu.
> It will also make some cost reduction for the companies which use 
> Windows and have to pay a lot of money for licences.

Great to hear that you're switching to Ubuntu! I don't think Ubuntu is
officially supported by SAP at the moment (only SuSE and Red Hat are
supported), but you should be able to discuss your support requirements with
Canonical:

http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services

They offer a range of support options for enterprise users, so I'm sure
they'd be able to figure something out for you.

Thanks,

Phil

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