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To: Umnik who wrote (577)	3/19/1998 9:41:00 AM
From: Ray Rueb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3424

RE: preferred vendors and platforms << I hear that preferred DB choices are IFMX on UNIX and SQL Server on NT. >> Absolutely no way!!! I have a friend who works for SAP training. He is currently their highest rated instructor in the US, measured by SAP internal measurements (for whatever that's worth). He states that preferred platforms are currently HP and DEC for UNIX. Oracle is by far the preferred DB vendor. BTW, he referred to SQL Server as a "toy" database (personally, I agree). I think all SAP cares about is the ability of clients to get support when things go wrong. Oracle support is bad, but IFMX is FAR WORSE. I personally build Data warehouses for a living, and I would NEVER entrust a deployment to IFMX. I took SAP's overview class; most of the high-level DB functionality (user permissions) and much of the low level locking is also handled within R/3. So the real business objective in a RDBMS vendor choice is support. BTW: I used to think R/3 stood for Release 3... It actually stands for Relational 3 tier. And R/3 revision 4 is the current release.