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Hana 1, 2, 3 and so on

According to a promise by Hasso Plattner, these lines should not exist. At the presentation of Hana, he and the then Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka explained that there would never be version numbers for Hana because the database is continuously being developed.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
January 15, 2019
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When Sikka had to leave and was succeeded by Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert, the latter spoke of a necessary retread in one of his first press conferences.

Some time later, Hana 2 saw the light of day in the SAP community, and Jörg Latza, vice president for Hana product management at SAP, explained:

"Everything that works on the old version works on the new version."

Wrong again! Only if you made it to Hana 1 SPS 10 and EHP 7.49 despite the many database errors, you can switch to Hana 2 with existing applications.

Because this step is absolutely unrealistic, there will be a general release for EHP 7 by the end of July this year at the latest - a late insight by SAP for a hot summer!

Roadmaps only make sense if they are kept in sync with the situations of existing customers, otherwise SAP roadmaps are hardly worth the paper they are printed on.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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