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Re: SAP on AS400?

The best description I've ever heard of a SAP installation process is line from Animal House "Cost millions of Dollars and thousands of lives..." :) Granted, it's a figure of speech, but, if it's done right, as I understand it, an SAP installation will be a 
slow and expensive process.
I'm told it does run on AS/400(iseries, i5....), but I would put money that you'll be using a unix (probably AIXL or HPUX) to implement it, if you're not lucky enough to stay on i5/os... 

Don in DC


At 11:50 AM 10/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:

There was just a shocking, brief non-specific message sent out from
"Headquarters" about moving from our home-grown RPG (non free form, real
old school), to SAP sent out today.
1. Does SAP run natively on OS400/V5R3?
2. Does it not in fact cost a few kajilliion dollars?
3. What is the licensing scheme (per site/seat/concurrent user, etc.)?
4. Does even maintenance/support in fact cost a few kajilliion dollars?
5. Does it run on DB2?
6. If we want customization, are we asking for a world of never ending
pain & payment (in a cost range of a few kajilliion dollars)?
7. If we want customization, are upgrades a real bitch to pull off?
8. For those of you who are current users, what is your satisfaction
level (1 - Like dying & going to Hell, 10 - Like dying & going to
Heaven)?
9. How did it affect your programming staff if say you migrated from a
home-grown RPG system like ours to SAP? Did the conversion include early
retirement offers and/or directions on how to leave the premises like a
fire drill?

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