Change Req managment in heterogeneous environment

We are in the process of setting up CHARM in Solution Manager. We are
in the initial setup process.
We have our ECC Dev system(transport domain controller) on AIX and our
BI Dev syetem (transport domain) on Windows.
Q) We want to know whether we can use Solution Manager to control the
transports of BI and ECC. We want to use CTS+ on Solution Manager to
control the heterogeneous systems as well.
Please advise of any SAP Notes, Help documents etc.

Hi Lalit,
Its simple .
1) More Vendor for diffrent tehnology and diff maintaence cost
2) Diff technical skiilled resources required which is directly propotional to more more cost
3)More disadvantage during system copy if is hetrogeneous env
Regards
GokUL B

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