Re: [parisc-linux] Newbie on PA: Trying to compile kernel

[Helge Deller <helge.deller@sap.com>]

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 01:33, Markus Döhr wrote:
> > > PS-OT: I wonder if SAP will port their application server to
> > > parisc/Linux...
> >
On Tuesday 09 October 2001 23:55, Thomas Marteau wrote:
> > I really do not know. Perhaps, Helge Deller will know :)
>
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 01:33, Randall Craig wrote:
> I would imagine, only until there is a real market demand for palinux, and
> if large distros such as SuSE adopt palinux.  ... and of course when
> palinux becomes stable.

Hi Markus, Thomas and Randall,

That's funny. Right yesterday I got a B180L for my desk and a B2000 in one of the 
server-rooms. Believe me, I'll try to build the R/3 kernel for PA/Linux, but 
this is primarily my private interest and is not related to my job or my daily tasks here.

I asked already at a higher level how SAP's interest for SAP on PA/Linux is.
But as Randall said, SAP wouldn't even think of it, if not one of the big vendors
(SuSE, RedHat, anyone else or even HP itself) would take over customer-support 
for R/3 on PA/Linux.
Furthermore I personally also don't think that SAP on PA/Linux will ever 
happen, mainly because
a) AFAIK HP will or has already stopped their PARISC product line - which is a 
knock-out argument against too much further development on that platform, and
b) SAP will only support one Unix-Platform per processor-architecture. This
would mean that HP would have to drop R/3 on HP/UX - in favour of  R/3 on PA/Linux -
which I think would never happen.

Greetings,
Helge
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