April 04, 2005

51% of SAP Customers Choose Windows

In Windows and UNIX Remain the Safe Choice for SAP Customers AMR Research reports that

Microsoft Windows retained 51.3%, and UNIX settled at 41% of the cumulative global market share for Operating Systems (OSs) of SAP customer production system database servers at the end of 2004.

Beyond the headlines, we read that

Windows NT was the second database server OS supported by SAP, but it is the most popular customer OS...

Windows NT!? MS retired that OS in 2002. So we can definitively say that either AMR's report is in error, or 51.3% of SAPs customers don't know what they are doing.

Posted by rob at April 4, 2005 09:29 AM