SAP on SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008

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We are very proud to announce that SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 are now officially a supported solution for SAP.
More information can be found in this press release.

Some quick facts from our SAP portal site:

  • Over 65,000 SAP installations are on the Windows Server platform

  • Over 25,000 SAP installations are on SQL Server

  • Over 200 SAP customers have a productive database size of over 1TB and run on SQL Server

  • A joint Microsoft and SAP customer has a production database size of over 13TB and runs on SQL Server

  • A joint Microsoft and SAP customer is running SAP ERP with over 3,000 concurrent users on SQL Server

  • Another component of reducing cost - server consolidation - is addressed by Microsoft’s Virtualization solution that was recently certified by SAP