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CONFIDENTLY RUN YOUR SAP® SOLUTIONS ON LINUX Robust Delivery and Full Support from SAP and Its Partners Make Linux a Real Option

SAP® software is designed to make companies of all sizes more efficient, more agile, and more responsive. While SAP business solutions help you differentiate your company and support your growth strategies, you also need the freedom to run these applications on the most effective and economic IT infrastructure available. With SAP business solutions running on Linux, you can

SAP provides a comprehensive range of solutions to empower every aspect of your business operations. Our mission is to help you make the choices that are right for your organization – choices that can help you run and differentiate your business successfully. You gain the visibility to pinpoint inefficiencies and the capabilities to transform them into competitive advantages. You enjoy the foresight to identify new opportunities and the agility to respond to changing business realities. SAP enables you to optimize IT operations, especially with regard to your software infrastructure. You have the freedom to choose your platform because SAP has abstracted infrastructure components, such as the operating system and database, from the solution layer. This means that you can select the infrastructure that suits your particular needs and provides the best cost-to-benefit ratio.

confidently entrust critical enterprise applications to this open-source platform, enjoying freedom of choice and reduced costs.

The challenge for those responsible for IT is to extract more from their existing applications and apply new technology to support business innovation while spending less. With technology life cycles getting shorter, you need the freedom to adopt new hardware and system innovations within months. In the face of unprecedented rates of change in both business and technology, more and more organizations are asking if an open-source platform is a viable option for them.

Linux – a Real Option for Business-Critical

Linux Support from Major SAP Partners

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SAP has strong, long-standing partnerships with major hardware, software, and consulting vendors. Whatever your chosen hardware platform, processor type, or Linux distribution, these SAP partners ensure that the Linux infrastructure runs your SAP business solutions reliably and with optimum performance.

The characteristics of Linux are well understood – it decouples business applications from the underlying hardware to provide a truly open platform. In many environments, Linux has demonstrated that it can enable you to break free from costly purchase and maintenance commitments sometimes associated with other platforms, giving you flexibility and independence in the construction of your IT infrastructure. Since Linux runs on multiple hardware architectures, you can enjoy the advantages of supporting one operating system across the entire enterprise. In addition to this, customers report that through cost savings they are able to reallocate budget from nondifferentiating infrastructure to innovative, differentiating software. As the low-cost and freedom-of-choice benefits of Linux have become widely acknowledged, an increasing number of organizations are selecting this open-source software as an option for running their mission-critical business solutions. The key question is whether Linux is sufficiently robust, reliable, scalable, and well-supported for you to confidently entrust critical enterprise applications to this open-source platform. SAP® Applications Running on Linux – the Confident Choice for Enterprise Applications

SAP was the first software vendor to recognize the applicability of Linux to mission-critical enterprise applications as early as 1996. And today, Linux is one of two reference platforms for SAP development. SAP® business solutions running on Linux conform to the same high standards as they do on every other operating system on which SAP enterprise systems run. SAP solutions on Linux go through stringent quality assurance and certification processes performed by SAP and its partners. With your SAP business solutions, Linux is a real option.

As a user of SAP enterprise applications, this gives you freedom to choose the most appropriate hardware platform at any time. Adherence to the Linux Standard

Throughout the development and implementation of SAP business solutions on Linux, SAP has stuck rigorously to the policy of supporting the Linux kernel in its clean, unmodified form. This eliminates the need for special support or maintenance at the operating-system level when you implement SAP applications on Linux. You have the freedom to migrate your SAP applications to any supported platform running any supported Linux distribution. Maximum Performance and Scalability

As just one indication of our commitment to Linux as a longterm delivery platform, SAP supports 64-bit architectures from Intel, IBM, and AMD. This provides maximum performance and scalability for SAP solutions. Resources that were previously dedicated to overcoming memory limitations of 32-bit architectures are no longer required. SAP software on Linux supports Unicode, which enables it to meet the language requirements of different countries around the world. If you are operating in a global market, you can be sure that your SAP applications on Linux run efficiently in any part of the world, whatever the language requirements. With 64-bit Unicode, SAP software helps you address the needs of multiple communities with multiple languages, maintaining integrity of data in one system.

Strong Customer Adoption of Linux

Listen to What Our Customers and Partners Are

Thousands of mission-critical SAP applications are already running on Linux. Customers across all industries are enjoying the flexibility and freedom of choice that Linux provides and are capitalizing on the reduced transaction costs it delivers.

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The experiences of these customers provide a thorough endorsement of the robustness, reliability, and performance of SAP enterprise applications running on Linux. What You Gain from SAP Applications on Linux

Enterprise applications you can deploy with confidence. SAP shares a commitment with its customers to achieve their business goals. Our success is measured by your success, and each of our solutions is delivered to the same world-class standards, whether on Linux or any other operating system. Freedom and flexibility. Running your SAP enterprise applications on Linux puts you in control of your IT infrastructure. Because you’re not constrained by technology, you can make decisions based on your business situation and needs. Linux decouples the operating system from the underlying hardware, thereby increasing your choice of infrastructure vendors. Savings in IT operating costs. Customers report that SAP applications on Linux deliver significant direct and indirect savings in their IT operations with lower administration and operating costs than for non-open-source systems. The platform is extremely reliable so less system redundancy and maintenance are required than for most traditional installations. Customers enjoy savings on expensive license fees and are able to use commodity server hardware, which performs well under Linux but at a fraction of the cost. The power to innovate. By streamlining your IT operations, you can reallocate resources and accelerate business process innovation, address new business requirements, or simply improve your bottom line.

For evidence of the reliability, robustness, and performance of SAP solutions on Linux, you need look no further than the many successful customer implementations already completed and the commitment of SAP partners. Here’s what these customers and partners are saying: • RTL Group “With RTL switching to Linux servers, the hardware budget could be reduced by 50% and the maintenance costs decreased by 70% while the brutto [gross] performance doubled. The availability rate of the 98 Linux servers across RTL Group’s WAN is 99.998%. RTL Group will continue its Linux strategy, which includes mission-critical business applications such as those provided by SAP.” Jean-Alain Jachiet, Head of Telecommunication Solutions, RTL Group • Siegenia-Aubi KG “We were confident from the beginning that SAP solutions running under Linux would be capable of handling an environment of this magnitude. They do so with ease. I would not hesitate to add another 1,000 users if the need arose.” Werner Klar, Chief Information Officer, Siegenia-Aubi KG • St. Galler Tagblatt AG “We wanted to run our SAP systems on Linux. IBM, their partners, and the SAP global open-source office offered us a sophisticated strategy – and we achieved huge savings. We were taking the risk, we succeeded, and we would do it again.” Peter Baer, Head of IT, St. Galler Tagblatt AG • IBM “IBM is as excited as SAP with the rapid maturation of Linux to support business-critical workloads like SAP. Linux has grown beyond edge-of-network utility and is now becoming integral to customers’ core on-demand IT infrastructures. The proof is in the adoption we’ve seen with SAP in a rapidly growing number of real-world customer implementations.” Scott Handy, Vice President, Worldwide Linux and Open Source, IBM

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• Hewlett-Packard “Customers are moving towards open source and Linux because they want robust, reliable solutions at a lower TCO. HP has a long-standing commitment to developing, integrating, and supporting Linux solutions based on best-of-breed technology. As a key SAP technology partner, HP is also dedicated to delivering cost-effective and reliable SAP solutions across marketleading, standards-based HP ProLiant and Integrity servers running Linux, and serving as a single point of contact for comprehensive support around the world. With an overall strategy to maximize choice, simplify integration, and instill customer confidence, HP is pleased to offer SAP solutions for improving efficiencies, optimizing operations, and reducing IT infrastructure costs on Linux.” Martin Fink, Vice President and General Manager, Open Source and Linux Organization and NonStop Enterprise Division, Hewlett-Packard And Hear from the CEO of SAP

“As a platform-neutral business application provider, SAP does not specifically promote any one of the supported platforms such as UNIX, Windows, and Linux. However, if Linux is your choice, you can confidently move to this open-source platform in the knowledge that SAP solutions running on Linux are as robust and enjoy the same full support and long-term commitment from SAP and its global partners as they do on every other operating system.” Henning Kagermann, Chief Executive Officer, SAP AG

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