RE: SAP Hands SAP DB over to MySQL

Patrice,

No argument but I report to the applications side instead of the technical side these days and where the budget comes from is murkily out of both sides. My boss doesn't really have insight into how a change in platform would impact me and my staff or the technical group I work closely with.

Kip

|They don't want the choice to hardware, OS and software to be a "technical
|decision"?

|Why not? TCO is part of technical decision-making, is it not?

|Sometimes they decide before input from below then try to force a solution
|on the tech people.

|In that kind of world, the firm which is best at marketing to non-technical
|people wins.

|Patrice.

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|Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:25 PM
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|Everybody is under cost pressures these days, right? Recently my boss
|required
|that I attend a few "webinars" hosted by Microsoft to hear their line on TCO
|because he didn't want the choice of our next platform to be a "technical
|decision" (we're on Tru64 unix). I don't think I'll be encouraged to
|consider
|MySQL, postgre sql, linux, etc anytime soon for mission critical apps but
|who
|knows?

|SAP has been sparring with Oracle for at least the past 10 years. SAP's
|success has helped Oracle sell their product which I guess is irksome to SAP
|since they see Oracle as a competitor. At one point, SAP was encouraging
|new
|customers to select Informix. Now it seems to be DB2 and/or "SAP DB"... At

|sapteched this year, their analysis of the database market was that it was
|at
|a point where features had become a commodity but commodity pricing hadn't
|happened yet...but that it would. They were calling Oracle/IBM/Microsoft
|the
|dominant options and then comparing them with SAP DB. I don't recall any
|talk
|about MySQL, postgresql...

|Kip

||Okay, I've got a question for you people knowledgeable in SAP. Who would
||trust their financial and payroll data to MySQL? I'm not saying this to
||knock MySQL. It is just that your financial and payroll data is among your
||most valuable data in the corporation. Only recently was a transaction
||capability added to MySQL, and that was more of an "add-on". I manage
||several databases and my company even makes modest use of MySQL. But of
||those databases, the financial and payroll data would be the LAST database
|I
||would convert to something like MySQL. I'm just curious what is the big
||incentive in MySQL is.

||Dennis Williams
||DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
||Lifetouch, Inc.
||dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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