(meta commentary)

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that this HN account only posts articles from The Register on a daily basis and who's only comment history is providing archive links in a near automated fashion?

Based on their rate of posting and the near synchronized posting times a day, this account just does not feel like a good faith account.

Ah ah. Those discussions plague my calendar. For the moment, as far as I am concerned, SAP is promoting in S4 their own ontology, aka SAP CDSViews, which creates a looooot of questions in our domain. Is an external DB supplier supposed to force you into its own core data model.

Just like if Oracle told you which tables you have the right, or not, to create.

No kidding, where I worked (fortune 500) they started to move to HANA, that drove me out :)

At my age, I was done doing 24/7 that it would take to get in installed before S/3 licenses expired.

Last I heard the company was going to pay millions more to keep using S/3 because they realized HANA would not be active in time.

I do not know the status now, but I know cost in real $ will be an awful lot. The thing that is interesting with HANA you now need to use an SAP D/B, no more dog fooding using your database (oracle, DB/2 ...) which you sell to customers.

If I was in charge, I would go to SAP and say, unless we get huge relief on the cost, we will move to another ERP. I would have had this search active before looking at HANA.