On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:23:02PM +0800, Michael Peligro wrote: > I remember back in 1998 when our CIO and CEO went to Germany for 6 months of > hands-on evaluation and training of SAP Retail.
Back in 1998 SAPdb wasn't even GPL'd. They opened the source code 2 years later. > They went home disappointed. SAPdb's hardware requirements are very intensive. Maybe for SAP systems, but the SAPdb software itself will need a modest machine and a fat hard drive at least (qualifies as hardware intensive for me already - you'll need 100MB+ hard disk space just for the server, not including 32MB more for the tools, some 128MB+ RAM...) > SAPdb will not run on clones, and is a pain to configure. I just tried installing the SAPdb 7.4 server and client software on my cheap Duron box (running Debian Woody) a week ago. It was a bit straight forward configuration afterwards (but I didn't refer to the online technical documentation, as it is centric on SAPdb installs on SAP systems, and not on "unsupported" platforms - but there's some unofficial info you can find on the net for such). Installable via RPM or tarball, or compile it yourself -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
