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Does anyone have experience integrating their apps with SAP systems?

I have a prospective client who uses SAP throughout their organization. I know that at least their instance of SAP uses an Oracle backend. That's about all I know.

Can I interact with that Oracle backend via ODBC? Will it matter what platform they're running on (I assume some Unix derivative)? Any substantial gotchas to be aware of? Any questions I should be asking them regarding their implementation? What about VFP 6 performance with SAP - is it fast?

Any thoughts or experiences with SAP would be greatly appreciated. Their IT guys will probably invite me in and give me a grilling.

Thanks in advance.