I'm looking for software like BW to use in Linux.

Baan with Linux can be used.... It is tested. As far as I know SSA is not officially supporting with LINUX....
You can go ahead and let us also know the results too...

BAAN with Linux has not only been tested, it is already being used in operational environments.
BAAN officially supports Linux (Suse8) on BAAN IV, BAAN V and SSA ERP LN 6.1.
Together with the databases Oracle9, Oracle10 and Informix9.40.
For BAAN IV the BISAM database is also supported in combination with Linux.

To my knowledge two BAAN IV customers are already live with Linux. One in Germany and one in The Netherlands.
The most interesting thing is that in both cases the users "complain" their BAAN system is too fast now and they have less time to get a new cup of coffee.
The other advantage of Linux with BAAN is that the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) becomes drastically lower. This is due to the concept of OpenSource and allows companies to save additional money on the purchase of the hardware and maintenance costs.

The whole idea of using Linux in a business environment is not new as many SAP customers have already seen the light here...

I have personnally experienced the interest for Linux is increasing among BAAN customers and also with customers that are considering a migration from BAAN IV to SSA ERP LN 6.1.
Together with two other technical guru's, Patrick Van der Veken (the founder and owner of BaanBoard) and Rob de Jong, we have come up with a new concept for Linux and BAAN: "The AutoBahn Experience".

If you are thinking about replacing your hardware and upgrading your Operating System and database you can also save a lot of money on your TCO with our 'Linux for BAAN' proposition.
Please contact us at edwin@qtris.com for details.

Regards,

Edwin
Qtris - The AutoBahn Experience

There are at least other two customers in Italy live with Linux as well, they have just one complaint: why not before???!!!

Hopefully SSA BAAN will soon also support Suse9 and the MySQL database.
Then the cost of ownership for customers will be a lot less compared to what competitors will offer.
Let's hope BAAN Development will become as innovative as their SAP counterparts and makes sure all these features (the most recent Suse and MySQL versions) can be offered to the BAAN installed base.

Regards,

Edwin

Hi Guys,
i think the given information is not what the question was about.
jr.ferreira asked for software like bw for linux on the client side . As bw means Baan Windows you can't use it on Linux. The alternative is Webtop (Webtop-Version 4 onwards). This Version is independent of MS-JVM and MS IE. It should also run on Mozilla (f.i. Firefox) with Sun JRE 1.4.x and upwards (both on Windows and Linux).
I have just ordered this Version and will try.

Greets,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your comment and information.
You are correct that the real question of jr.ferreira was not answered properly.
However, I was triggered by the remark that SSA BAAN does not support Linux. This is not correct.

Please let us know the results of your tests.

Regards,

Edwin

Please note the above! As administrator I noticed that e.g. the development sessions don't work. Other like user administration is no problem.

Webtop itselfs runs fine on linux as well.

Although Baan doesn't support it, the portingset for linux runs fine on my professional Suse 9.0.

Regards,
Han

Is SLM available on linux? As the webtop needs to be licensed, when we installed webtop 3.0 sometime back on Linux, SLM port for linux was not available. Hence, webtop screen keeps giving the message of license.

SLM is centralized licensing. So while your webtop install might
be on linux, you can install SLM onto a PC, or some other server.

Dave

Is SLM available on linux?

SLM is available on LINUX. I installed Version 2.2 and it works perfect.

Andreas

I will try to install BW client by using Wine on Suse as soon as I get Suse 9.3 on my PC which might happen in few days. Though, I have already run it on Wine successfully but windows print.

Some more info can be found on
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=586

I want know about, what if I change the IP address of the system running Baan?

I mean what will be the implecations??? does baan depends on IP address???

any pointer will be of great help.

regards,

Bimal Pandit
bimal_pandit AT rediffmail.com

Hi, Bimal

First of all let us know, whether you are likely to change your baan server ip address or just a baan client. If it is server then you need to change the hostname of all other baan client PCs but in case of client there would be no effect.

Rgds

Viplov

Oh!!!, I am sorry for my unclear question.

actually I just want to know that what would happen if i change the IP address of BaaN server?

In fact we had a demo system(BaaN Server) which has an IP of 10.10.10.5, now I want to change it to 192.168.25.3, running on Windows NT with SQL.

with thanks and regards

Bimal Pandit

It's the BX client, BX is the standard client in UNIX environment which runs in an X-environment. Look for bx6.1 in the $bse/bin directory.

I've used it on serveral occasions, since i'm a sysadmin of an operational BaanIV installation on Suse Linux 8 in the Netherlands