On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, John R Pierce wrote:
Alexander Farber wrote:
You don't know our situation and already have an opinion.
We already spent 400000 Euro for SW licenses this year (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, so I can understand that management tries to save some money.
do you understand that if there is ANY issue which could be an OS related problem that even possibly could be caused by mixing builds of RPMs, SAP will not support you, and that e400K investment will be near worthless?
Actually it is trending towards worthless as soon as SAP says "please update package X to the latest version from Red Hat" and you can't do it.
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