Any idea what SAP is planning to do with EAServer/ Jaguar?

Question

Somebody asked me this question and I thought this might be the best place to find out after spending a few minutes trying to answer on my own.  I assume there is some master product list someplace for all the SAP/Sybase products and what there current status and future are.

Answer 1

We are suggesting taking the n-tier PB app and converting it to FAT client and then deploying with Appeon. Still quite a lot of work but less risk than a rewrite. At least all the business logic is retained and they avoid the need for a huge specification phase for a new system. (More often than not they don't have the details needed).
It all really depends on the complexity of their EAS application. We have one client whose application is SO complicated and over engineered that it is going to be a very difficult job to convert to FAT client. We might be calling on this forums help when that one comes around
I know that SAP are thinking about a route to move customers to a different application server platform and it is still conceivable that the EOL will be extended whilst they do that. All the while people are paying support then I'm sure they'll take the money until it is no longer commercially viable. A lot of people are still running on EAS 5.5 and so are not really supported anyway. They have visualised their deployment platforms to remove the hardware dependency and conceivably can run for many years yet.
I still believe that if you want n-tier then you should push the processing to the database, if you are not wanting to deploy a DB client then use Appeon.
EAS is dead and we need to help people move away with the least amount of pain.