Case study: Hillarys' Julian Bond on the company's shift from HP-UX to SUSE Linux as part of SAP Business Suite upgrade

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Hillarys' SAP upgrade complicated by platform shift and database migration

Julian Bond, head of ICT at Hillarys, the £200m shutter, blind and curtain manufacturer, has been talking to Computing following the completion of its SAP upgrade, a project that entailed a databas...

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