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SAP and Oracle no more subject to Windows

{Just making a more visible title to George Mitchell's excellent "Breaking News: Another Enterprise App Moves to Linux" http://zdnet.com.com/5208-1103-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=4100&messageID=84527&start=-21 }

For years I never understood why large, fine, successful companies like Sun, Oracle, continued wasting resources in publicly bashing their competitor Microsoft (thus essentially undermining their own credibility), instead of devoting those resources to work hard and fast, night and day, as MS was silently doing.

Those companies, while still great for a while, were headed to failure since relying on their competitor's platform, Windows. Just like GM would put Ford motors in 100% of its own cars. I often said: Sun, Oracle, you must at once, today, start building a new OS of your own - no matter if by entirely writing it, or bundling the pieces that you already have in your group of companies, or that you can soon develop.

It seems the negociation SAP had with MS brought a big benefit: making SAP finally realize the threat, urgently turning things around, thus prompting Oracle to do till more (details in George Mitchell's important link, "SAP To Transfer Products to Linux Platform", http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/global/34918.html ). As a result:

- SAP will have Linux versions for 30% of its products by 2006;
- Oracle will have Linux versions for 100% of its products by the end of 2004.

Of course this is only hearsay so far (I found nothing of it on SAP site http://www.sap.com/ ), but if verified it is something very important to the industry: finally a real competition to Microsoft is looming.

Paris, Tue 6 Jul 2004 14:35:30 +0200

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