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Nigel_James
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I have been around this SDN gig for a while. I remember stumbling across the ftp site a couple of years ago and downloading the first sneak preview. I was so excited that I told all my colleagues at work the next day.   I remember it was a pain to install and you had to have a precise version of the Java SDK and if it worked right the first time it was a miracle.   Fast forward to September 06. I now have a machine with a spec to cope and when I saw the new updated realease I knew it was time to get it installed.  WOW. I was blown away. They say in their blurb about the new version...  "With an improved installer, installation of SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP SP08 is easier, faster, and more robust"  They are not joking ladies and gentlemen. This is the real deal. I would love to be telling how I fixed this little niggle and had to hack that little issue but NO. I had no issues at all.  Ok it is a hefty download and it took over 2 hours even with a solid broadband connection. To put it through it paces I thought I would install it in the background while I was working in Eclipse.   Note: you need a fairly well spec'd machine to run this on. The recommendation is that you have a minimum of 1Gb of ram. Let me suggest that you have 1Gb of ram just for the NW04s itself. If you have 2Gb on your machine so much the better.  As I said I was working in Eclipse (Callisto edition) while the install was going on in the background. Eclipse was taking up 300M of memory just by itself. I checked it from time to time but once I had given it the initial answers, it happily chugged along by itself. From go to woah it took about 2 hours to complete. I expected a bit of pain but there was none. I expected to have to uninstall and try again but I didn't. If I had shut every other program down and left to its own devices it may have completed a tad quicker but I was impressed that I could keep working while it installed.  It was so easy. Take my word for it give it a spin.  Congratulations to the guys who put this together. You have done an awesome job. I am looking forward to giving it a good run now and now I can test the new Scripting Toolkit
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