SAP and

Open Source
Mission-critical businesses run Open Source
 Presentation Overview

SAP AG today

Availability history of
SAP solutions on Linux

LinuxLab@SAP

SAP solutions on Linux: Highly

available

Current SAP Projects on Linux

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 Summary of SAP Today

SAP AG in 2002 revenues: € 7.4 billion

n 60,100 installations
n 19,300 companies run SAP
n Providing 23 Industry Solutions
n 28,654 SAP employees (March 2003)

12 million users in 120+ countries team

with us to
n Integrate their business processes
n Extend their competitive capabilities
n Get a better return on information at a lower total
cost of ownership

Unique Partner Ecosystem

n More than 1,500 partners
n Overall more than 120,000 SAP partner certificates
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 SAP Milestones over 30 Years

mySAP
Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver
mySAP.com ESA
One-Step-
Business

R/3
Client/Server

R/2
Mainframe n 6,265 bill. €

R/1 n 5.1 mill. € n 424 mill. € Revenue n 7.4 bill. €

Revenue Revenue n 25,000 Revenue
n 0.3 mill. € n 60 Employees n 3,200 Employees Employees n 28,654 Employees
Revenue n 50 Customers n 2,800 Customers n 15,000 Customers n 19,300 Customers
n 9 Employees in 2 Countries in 35 Countries in 120 Countries in 120+ Countries

1972 1979 1992 1999/2000 2002/2003

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 mySAP - Succeeding in Times Like These

World Class Applications World Class Technology

Create value for your Lowest Cost of Ownership

organization
Scalable
Empower every employee
Open standards
For every size of business
Secure
Appropriate functionality
Highly available
Collaboration

Industry expertise

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 SAP Solutions on Linux - Facts

SAP was the first to ship business solutions on Linux

n General availability for SAP R/3 since Q4 99
n All R/3 releases since R/3 4.0B, including R/3 Enterprise
n Full availability of all SAP products based on
SAP Web Application Server and SAP Basis 4.x

Supported Platforms
n Distributions: Red Hat Enterprise and SuSE
n Databases: SAP DB, IBM DB2, Oracle 9i, Informix

Linux is Reference Platform for SAP software development

n Best availability of SAP solutions on Linux guaranteed

Market share of mySAP Solutions on Linux

n More than 1,000 installations with Linux on the
database server (2002)
n Linux installations have doubled each year since 1999
n Much more than 1,000 installed Linux-based
application servers
n Customer appreciation – very positive feedback

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 Get mySAP on Linux Running

Install a new configuration on Linux

n Use SAP standard installation tools
n Advanced Infrastucture
based on Blade and SAN: Order it now!

Extend the existing configuration

with new Linux application servers
n Mixed Unix server configuration fully supported

Migration
n Migration tools to Linux are available
for all certified database and OS platforms
n Packaged SAP Migration Services are available

Service and Support for mySAP on Linux

n mySAP on Linux with SAP‘s renown
quality of service and support
n Linux maintenance available through
Red Hat, SuSe and your hardware partner
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 Open Standards

Linux is Open Source

n Huge developer community
n Fastest growing Operating System
n Only OS with growing mySAP market share
n Very good interoperability with other OS
n Open Source is a pre-requisite for a secure OS

SAP promotes Open Source

n SAP DB is the only Open Source database ready
for mission critical business applications like SAP
n SAP has ported Posix compliant shared memory file
system to Linux
n SAP solutions will run with clean Linux kernel,
untainted by binary-only kernel modules
n Netweaver IDE based on Open Source JAVA IDE Eclipse

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 Open Standards (continued)

Linux is Cutting-Edge Technology

n User-friendly desktop
n Flexibility and Scalability
n Performance and resource usage
n Professional support
n Reduced TCO and higher ROI compared to proprietary
Unix

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 LinuxLab@SAP

SAP has founded the Linuxlab to make mySAP available on Linux

n LinuxLab is a joint development co-operation between SAP
hardware and technology partners, distributors and SAP itself
n Since 1999, LinuxLab helps to keep Linux solutions ready for
business critical enterprise computing
n Located at SAP headquarters in Walldorf/Baden
n SAP LinuxLab is your personal contact inside of SAP
support delivering first class support on development level
n Contact us: linux@sap.com

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 mySAP on Linux: Highly Available and Reliable

High Availability for mySAP Business Suite on Linux

n SteelEye LifeKeeper
u Recovery kit for mySAP
u SteelEye is SAP software partner
u SteelEye and LinuxLab Development cooperation
n Oracle Real Application Cluster
n Replicated Enqueue
n Blade Technology
n NAS

Linux on the SAP Users‘ Desktop

n SAPGUI for Java generally available
n Integration of SAP GUI and OpenOffice

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 Current SAP Projects on Linux

Support for UnitedLinux

n SuSE SLES8 powered by UnitedLinux V1 certified
n TurboLinux, SCO, Connectiva most likely to follow
soon

Red Hat Advanced Server

n Certification for Red Hat AS 2.1 in 2003

Support all mySAP components on Linux

n ITS 6.20 on Linux available as public beta since 2002
n Planned Linux support for mySAP Supplier
Relationship Management and Enterprise Portal
n mySAP Supply Chain Management
u Linux certified platform for Advanced Planner and
Optimization
u application and database server
u liveCache port to Linux on Itanium in progress

Linux for mySAP on Oracle RAC

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 Advanced Infrastructure

Standard SAP components

n Presentation Servers R/3 APO BW CRM PLM
n Application Server/s
n Database Server

Landscape
n Development System
n Test and Quality System
n Productive System

Consolidated Approach
mySAP
n Place several components
of several SAP solutions on
a server
n Place several solutions in
one database (MCOD)
n Use NAS or SAN for
storing persistent data
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 Presentation
Database Application Heterogeneous configurations with Linux

Homogeneous Environment Heterogeneous Environment

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 Advanced Consolidation for mySAP on Linux

SAP Advanced Monitoring Cockpit

Infrastructure Concept
n Already available on
Linux! Diskless Blade Servers
n Innovative concepts like

Spare Blade
netboot and server

Blade 1
Blade 2
Blade 3
Blade 4
Blade 5
Blade 6
Blade 7
images
n Add additional
capacity on demand
n Reduce Maintenance
costs

S
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n Minimize Complexity

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Appl n

tbo
OS Image bw
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OS Image apo
Appl 2

Appl 1 OS Image r3

Storage Area Network

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 Summary
SAP business applications on Linux
n Standard availability on Linux for all SAP solutions
n New SAP products are developed on Linux
n Linux is SAP reference platform

Linux is Ready for Running Mission Critical Applications

n Since 1999, Linux has proven to be a mature operating
system for SAP e-Business applications
n High availability for SAP e-business solutions on Linux
n Open Source is the new development method for technology
infrastructure
n Rely on SAP technology partners like IBM for your hardware
n Benefit from Enterprise-Ready Linux distributions from
Red Hat and SuSE

Major Linux advantages

n Optimize usage of your resources with the help of
advanced infrastructure concepts
n Powerful hardware at an unbeatable
Price-Performance ratio
n Minimize OS license and maintenance costs
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