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Monday, July 30th, 2007

SAP Certifies its NetWeaver Apps for RHEL 5 AP

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070718/20070718005069.html?.v=1

Typical press release, however, noticed a couple things of interest:

1) It includes RHEL/Xen virtualization scenarios.

The certification includes the virtualization technology embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for use with SAP® applications.

2) SAP is writing its applications to take advantage of Linux specific technologies that may have once been reserved to legacy UNIX platforms:

Furthermore, it offers a complete solution stack through the integration of Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Cluster Suite, SELinux and further technologies for high availability, storage management and security.