> I beleive its because SAP aggressively is marketing to sell HANA first and make it 'the norm' for SAP
> applications round the globe
Are you saying that HANA will be SAP's prefered technology
> and once they are satisfied, they come back to sell the rest of the customers
and SAP aims to move ASE customers to HANA ?
With HANA having a different dialect of SQL to ASE, moving to HANA would be expensive and almost impossible - obviously most customers would move to something more similar to ASE.
> assuming its mostly mid sized to small based
What's the definition of small - mid-sized these days ?
Why is HANA better for small-mid sized.?