Hana 1, 2, 3 and so on
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.