I worried about the future of the SAPDB as an enterprise database. Maybe this ist the wrong place.
Is there a fork between SAPDB internal(R/3) and the SAPDB, that is going with MYSQL, or will those companies, that use SAPDB with their R/3-systems, get their database in future from MYSQL? Thorsten Weers "Stephen Gutknecht (SAPDB)" wrote: > mySQL isn't assimilating SAPDB. They are getting it for free. I doubt they > even know what they have yet. > > Do you really think the tiny little mySQL organization "bought out" SAPDB :0 > SAP is a huge company with huge profits compared to mySQL. > > You are reading the public relations 'spin'. > > Here is one possible view of the "recent" SAPDB history... > > 1. SAP purchased Adabase and had internal-only SAPDB for R/3. They offered > it as an option for R/3 customers. Maybe it was a swipe at Oracle (Oracle > is a R/3 competitor along with Peoplesoft, not just a database vendor). > Maybe they had a couple thousand customers who used SAPDB, but not very > many. Most continue to use Oracle with R/3. > 2. SAP management decided after so many years that SAPDB this was not > benefiting the R/3 business and then decided to release SAPDB as open > source. > 3. The open source usage of SAPDB never really took off. SAP pretty much > treated it like a 'commercial product' but with free distribution. The > source code was not very inviting to outsiders - and other than S390 and > FreeBSD ports, not much has really come INTO SAPDB from being opened. Very > few people in the open source community know the SAP name, and SAPDB itself > is "best kept secret." Despite being free for over 2 years, it is still > very obscure. > 4. SAPDB decided to cut $. Paying Germany professional salary rates to > continue to support and develop SAPDB, which is generating no income nor > significant positive press. So they work to develop a exit plan... > 5. SAP strikes a deal to give SAPDB to MySQL including labor of the > employees for some time period. Better than just shutting the doors > overnight, but still a plan to rid themselves of the product line and staff > (just in a phased approach). > > I think the "open sourcing" of SAPDB was a _last ditch effort_ for a product > dying from own weight. I think management at SAP decided open sourcing > didn't work and is exiting the stage on the DB market. MySQL picked it up > at clearance price. I wouldn't be surprised if mySQL is getting free labor > (paid employees for x years) and all the technology out of the deal. In > other words, SAP may be _paying_ mySQL to take the product as part of a > graceful way of ridding themselves of the product. > > Wild speculation on my part. Only my personal opinion of the tracks I see > on the road. I could bey _way way off_. No intention to offend anyone. > > Stephen Gutknecht > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sven K�hler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 5:36 PM > To: Zak Greant > Cc: Thomas Cataldo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MySQL AB and the SAP DB community > > [snip] > > I feel like you MySQL-people are assimilating SAPDB. At least the Borg > claim to learn things while assimilating other species. I'm not sure if > MySQL will. > > Please supply us with a plan what will be done! > We need it! Proove, that you are not foolish enough, to create a product > that is not as good as the one we already have (i should say "had", > because SAPDB is no more - R.I.P) > > [snip] > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
