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Re: SAP R/3 Alpha Unix or Intel NT ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (christian.guhrs)
Sat Dec 6 19:08:27 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 6 Dec 1997 12:16:26 -0600
From: "christian.guhrs" <christian.guhrs@MCI2000.com> (by way of SAP Moderator <sap-request@realtimeusa.com>)
You should be able to get the best of both worlds.
DEC Alpha runs Windows NT as well and this relationship will improve after
the news published by DEC and Intel last weeks.
For top performance you will need DEC Unix (OSF) at the moment since NT does
not scale the same way. If you do not need everything Alpha Technology can
give you because the size of your implementation is limited in the
foreseeable future you could go ahead and use NT with Alpha which probably
is one of the most secure investments in the current market place.
Both environments (NT or OSF) give you enough tools and administration
support to make SAP a success. But keep in mind, none of these has a
Mainframe like stable and proven operations support backup and management
set. But since you are going client server, why would you expect this :).
NT on Intel is a good option too, some big companies are using it right now
but the benchmarks published by SAP point to Unix as platform for extreme
workloads at the moment.
If you are interested in more details, please email me directly.
Regards.
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