[plug] Red hat Linux 6.1

[Graham, Alan A.]

SAP for Linux ships with SAPDB, which is the open source DB SAP released a
few months ago.  You may know it as ADABAS...  SAP bought ADABAS years ago
and have since being improving ti.  Most commercial implementations still
use Oracle tho'.  Presumably that was why they open sourced it (ie, 'cos
no-one was buying it, so it doesn't cost them any future revemues?),  You
can also use Oracle 8.0i, which is available under the same 'free for
non-productive (sic) use' license.  

The problem with the system tho' isn't the underlying DB, it's the SAP
Kernel itself, and various other SAP process, that need particular versions
of the kernel, ncurese, glibc, etc...

Alan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Leon Brooks [SMTP:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent:	Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:44 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Red hat Linux 6.1
> 
> Alan Graham wrote:
> > I actually need RH 6.2, now that I've checked the SAP website.  
> 
> > I'm trying to set up an SAP system at home (as you do), and the
> > cd says 6.1. However, it actually means 6.1 Enterprise Edition,
> > but the web site says any version of 6.2 will also do.
> 
> As an alternative, it is likely that installing the glibc update from a 
> RedHat updates mirror into a later RedHat system (such as 7.1) is also 
> likely to work.
> 
> You may need to boot it under a 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4 and we 
> discovered that the security-patched 2.2 kernel shipped with Mandrake 
> breaks Pick (D3) so I guess is also likely to break SAP.
> 
> If you just need a comprehensive SQL server and this all gets too hard, 
> PostgreSQL is fairly complete and ships with most distributions. 
> Interbase is also said to be good, but I have not used it myself.
> Cheers;
>