cost diff. in % for SERVERS on Freeware Linux against whole SAP implementai

[Former Member]

Hi One and All,

What is the % of money involved for Servers in comparisn to the complete SAP

implementation cost?

ex.

A company spends 40% on Purchasing SAP Liscence,

20% on Implementation Partner,

20% on Servers ,

5% on PC systems on which Abap programmers and Functional Consultants sits,

15% on Support Project.

1. What actual % of total cost of SAP implementation is spend on SERVERS.

2. If Linux Servers (Freewares like OPEN SUSE or FEDORA or LIKEWISE) are used, how much of money will be reduced, in case the existing servers are Windows?

3. There are 2 identical organizations:

ONE has implemented SAP with database on WINDOWS SERVERS and all SAP systems have Windows OS.

OTHER has implemented SAP with database on LINUX (Available as Freeware in market) Servers and all SAP systems have Linux as OS.

now the Question is:

What will be the difference in MONEY SPEND by above 2 Organizations in PERCENTAGES?

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

1. What actual % of total cost of SAP implementation is spend on SERVERS.

This depends a) on the servers your buy and b) on the implementation. An implementation of e. g. just FI is less expensive than if you implement more "modules".

2. If Linux Servers (Freewares like OPEN SUSE or FEDORA or LIKEWISE) are used, how much of money will be reduced, in case the existing servers are Windows?

Linux ist not "freeware". There only specific distributions supported (SuSE SLES, Redhat Enterprise Server), especially the ones you you named are not. So you will need to buy an OS and maintenance license for the OS too.

What will be the difference in MONEY SPEND by above 2 Organizations in PERCENTAGES?

We also use Linux everywhere and money (or licenses) were not the reason to use one or the other but rather technical reasons.

The hardware and license costs are usually ony a very small amount of the total implementation costs. How much however, is project specific.

Many people think Windows is "easier" than Unix and use it but I personally think that both are equally "difficult"; one shouldn´t let oneself cheat by having the possibility to "manage the system by clicking"

Markus