Business objects XI v3 under Unix (AIX or Linux) a bad idea?

Post Author: Ferry Harmusial
CA Forum: Deployment
Hello everybody,
We are planning to upgrade to Business Objects V3 with web-clients and the platform is not yet determined.
However, from a press release I understood that Linux support for Business Objects is relatively new (august 2005).
It has been suggested that Business Object support for Unix in general is not as good as Windows support.
I'm very interested to learn from your experience ....
Kind Regards,
Ferry H.

Just want to add to the original question that:
the directory (in the error stack from tomcat)
/apps/truecomp/BOXI31/bobje/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost is NOT even existing on the
AIX server which installed BO XI 3.1 SP2.
Would really appreciate any comments on this problem, especially from SAP support team.
We are really stuck here.
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