> Hello,
>
> Von: Juergen Sauer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Am Montag, 10. Juni 2002 18:14 schrieb Dittmar, Daniel:
> > > Do you have any plans to release a Mac OS X - compatible
> > > version of SAP DB? How about Linux or *BSD on PPC?
> >
> > Chances for either are rather slim, at least for
> > an official port from SAP. Maybe if Mac OS X becomes
> > wildly successful in a very lucrative niche of
> > the ERP market.
>
> Sorry Mr. Ditmar,
> this is not a really valid OpenSoured Answer, this is simply trash.
>
> Either Sap-DB _is_ OpenSource and GPL or it is not.
>
> Sorry Juergen, your answer is also thrash.
>
> The people from sapdb are doing a great job to support us (non paying
> users).
> sapdb is open source and you can use it for free. But you can't argue
> that not porting sapdb to mac os X is against open source / gpl.
>
> sap does'nt make much money with the users of sapdb (you have to
> pay only if you want to have a support contract) and so you cant call
> for a port to mac os X.
> So i can understand Daniels answer very good. If there is a need by
> sap to port to mac os x, it will be done, but not if "just a user" asks
> for it.
> But i think they will answer your questions if you want port it to mac os
> X ;-)
>
>
> Folks@sapdb, you're doing a great job with developing and supporting
> such a great software :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mathias Glo�
>
>
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