SAP Developer Instance

[Former Member]

As an IT professional I would like to experiment with SAP so that I can try out ideas and learn more about it. I have found that many vendors such as IBM and Oracle offer developer editions of their products for these purposes. Ideally I would like to run an SAP instance on my personal workstation to use as a sandbox for programming and evaluation. Does SAP offer a such a developer edition?

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Yes, there are sneak preview editions available. Here is the link. If you want to practice ABAP development, then you want the download in the last column, the others are the java stack sneak previews.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/downloaditem?rid=/library/uuid/cfc19866-0401-0010-35b2-dc8158247fb6

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the link. These look like what I need. Unfortunately all of the downloads are for Microsoft platforms. Are there any UNIX or Linux versions?

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Ah...... not for download from here. You can order from the SAP shop.

Go to http://www.sap.com/company/shop/index.epx

Click Knowledge Shop

In the search box, type "50077574".

The result will show, add this to shopping cart and checkout.

It will arrive in a couple of weeks.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This is fantastic! I have just placed my order and I am eager for the arrival. Thank you for the information. I would never have found this without your help.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

There is <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/downloaditem?rid=/library/uuid/42dbc4a9-0401-0010-5091-c680531e23d5">technology Preview SAP NetWeaver 04 - SAP Web Application Server on Linux</a> that may help.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the link, but when I follow it I get the following error:

Portal Runtime Error

An exception occurred while processing a request for :

iView : N/A

Component Name : N/A

The exception was logged. Inform your system administrator..

See the details for the exception ID in the log file

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Odd, I don't have any problems.

The menu path is SDN ==> Downloads ==> Web AS ==> <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/downloaditem?rid=/library/uuid/42dbc4a9-0401-0010-5091-c680531e23d5">technology Preview SAP NetWeaver 04 - SAP Web Application Server on Linux</a>. About 8 rows down.

MattG.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The link is working for me today. SAP must have been working on the SDN site. Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please try

ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/sdn/devkits/netweaver/linux/

if you prefer the "old fashioned" way

bye

kay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This FTP site is great. I do prefer the "old fashioned" way as the auto-resume feature of ncFTP and other good FTP clients makes downloading large files much easier. I was navigating around /pub and found all sorts of helpful things. Thanks for posting this.