How quickly are SAP users moving from your older R/3 applications to the newer mySAP versions?
Agassi: It’s typically very fast. It’ll be 6,000 to 8,000 customers moving to mySAP ERP [enterprise resource planning] over the next 18 months. That’s equivalent to all of PeopleSoft. It’s as if Oracle converted all PeopleSoft users to Oracle 11i or Fusion. That’s the magnitude of what we’re doing. We still support customers on R/2 [the mainframe version of R/3.] We never stop supporting a customer. IDGNS: Where does SAP stand on open-source technology? Agassi: There’s a difference between what’s being said and what we’ve done. We had the first enterprise application on Linux in September 1999, seven years before it was cool. We’ve invested in MySQL. We’re not trying to kill them by buying up the transaction engines they use. We handed over our MaxDB database to MySQL’s enterprise division [over] three years ago. We’ve invested in Zend [Technologies]. The LAMP stack is supported and endorsed by SAP. Oracle isn’t supporting it. LAMP’s an important stack, but it’s one of a number of stac
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