SAP Certifies NetWeaver Middleware on RHEL 5

Published: July 31, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Red Hat might want to be a giant in the middleware space in the wake of its acquisition of JBoss last year, but the company also wants to be an operating system giant that embraces other middleware products. And so it comes as no surprise that one of the first pieces of middleware to be certified on the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system comes from ERP software juggernaut SAP.

The two companies said last week that SAP's NetWeaver middleware, which glues its mySAP application suite to the Web interface and therefore the Internet and private networks, has been certified to run on RHEL 5 Advanced Platform. The certification went both ways, with Red Hat certifying its software to support NetWeaver and with SAP certifying that NetWeaver runs on RHEL 5.

The Advanced Platform variant of RHEL 5 is the one that includes support for the open source Xen hypervisor from XenSource as well as an integrated Global File System and Cluster Suite from Red Hat for clustered storage and high availability clustering of servers that access it. SAP says that after a release of virtualized applications for the Linux platform, which will come out during the course of this year, SAP shops will be able to make use of all of these features in RHEL 5 Advanced Platform. Presumably, companies just wanting to plunk mySAP and NetWeaver onto RHEL 5 today and use it in monolithic, non-virtualized form can do so. SAP did not say when the fully virtualized version of its mySAP applications would be available.

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