The Business Issue
From a business perspective, the limitations of SAP R/3 on Windows make it difficult for businesses to add functionality that would improve customer relationships and supply-chain efficiency. New modules of SAP R/3 and the new dimension products from SAP consistently require more power than customers currently get from the Windows platform.
This is typical of complex production environments where it is difficult to supply what the users need if they prefer a Windows environment. To return to the example of the company that spent $18 million to get only the most basic SAP functionality, it's obvious that the technical and business problems are linked.
Are Windows-based solutions cheaper than UNIX solutions? It may seem that ...
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