The server operating system landscape for ERP users is changing. Since the late 1990s, customers of the big enterprise application suites from SAP, PeopleSoft or Oracle have had only two choices: either run on one of the vendor flavors of Unix, or go to the server version of Microsoft Windows. But now these customers have another choice. A recent Peerstone survey of several hundred SAP, Peoplesoft and Oracle ERP customers shows that a small but growing minority intend to migrate their core business applications to Linux. In other words, Linux is beginning to expand beyond its traditional role as an edge server into the core of the enterprise applications stack. Although Unix and Windows Server will retain their majority share through at least the middle term future, the evidence demonstrates conclusively that from the customer point of view the server OS choice for ERP is now a three way race.
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