Difference between Productive edition and Developer edition

[Former Member]

Hi,

what is the difference between SAP NW CE 7.1 installed in Developer edition and Productive Edition.

1)If we are planning for a three system landscape like SAP ERP instances with dev-qas and prd which edition

should we be going ahead with ?

2) In productive edition, can't we install sap nw developer studio like we can do in developer edition.

3) In a 3 tier landscape can we have a mix of editions ie DEV with developer edition and PRD in production edition..

Please reply.

Regards,

Sandeep

[Former Member]

Hi,

The difference is mainly that the productive edition is compliant to the usual SAP system layout(sapmnt/saploc shares, users, groups, etc.) while in the development edition these are skipped. From the functional perspective they should be identical.

In addition I AFAIK 32 bit windows is generally not supported for production (because of memory management issues) while 64-bit is not supported for development (IDE).

On your questions:

1) I guess development for developers, production for the rest.

2) I don't think the dev studio is supported on 64-bit.

3) No problem here. However if you're about to need system copy (for example to clone productive system data into dev/qa environment) it will not work for development edition. Have this in mind when you plan your landscape.

Hope this helps !

Best regards, dido