Disvantage of Linux for SAP

Look in the company I work in this moment we are using Unix for SAP, but we are deciding the possibility to change it for Linux, but they want to investigate first the disadvantage of doing this, so I need to investigate it, because is easy to investigate the good thinks of Linux but not the problems that could have.

Hi Elsa,
we are running all of our R/3, BW, CRM Systems including XI 3.0 on RHL3 and Oracle as DB and no issue at all. I think the switch from Unix should not be a problem.
Cheers
Stefan

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On Unix / Linux you should be able to leverage the response from Raphael and change:
Location＝%BOBJDIR%/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 11.5/sap/keycode/.registry
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> hi,
>
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thanks.

hi,
     the reboot of a system can be of broadly two types.
1) done by the user
2) abrupt shutdown say due to power failure.
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