Tony Rogerson wrote:
>>Which somehow explains why even Microsoft doesn't use its own technology
>>under its SAP financial system: Right?
>
>
> A tad out-of-date on that one, they migrated to the beta of SQL Server 2005
> in August 2004.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/01/RunningSAP/default.aspx
>
> "With 60,000 employees and operations in 89 countries, Microsoft has plenty
> of financial and operational data to track. The company's SAP R/3 system
> handles the Microsoft treasury, material management, payroll, worldwide
> sales, FINANCE, human resources, operations, as well as other
> mission-critical functions. In fact, the company's business depends on SAP
> R/3 being available.
> For enterprises that depend on SAP, SQL ServerT 2005 provides three features
> of immediate benefit: online indexing to allow index maintenance while
> remaining online, SQL Server Dynamic Management Views to simplify
> administration, and database mirroring to enable hot standby failover with
> zero transaction loss. Microsoft began running its SAP R/3 environment on
> the beta edition of SQL Server 2005 in August 2004."
>
> Can you provide a link to a reference that states Microsoft uses something
> else.
I will have to verify if this is true. Last time I checked it was not.
But they moved to their own Beta in 2004? Seems highly unlikely given
how "well" the Beta was functioning then.
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Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 15:52:24 CST