And then there is Elon Musk who told his CIO to build their own manufacturing planning system because he refused to give that much money to SAP or Oracle.<p>Ps. Having migrated an SAP off of AIX, I&#x27;d say you&#x27;d be better served with something like a VBlock or even VirtuStream or Amazon cloud to run it.  There also are price and performance incentives to run R&#x2F;4 on HANA than on Oracle.