Implementing technologies in environments that are always changing often generates doubts and challenges for us consultants. Of course you can ask your colleagues, but they are not always free and sometimes they just don’t know the answer.  So most of the time we are relying on the Internet to find tutorials or people who met the same problems before and explain how they have solved them. Therefore being able to search fast and efficiently makes our lives easier. Fortunately, some of the modern browsers (who said IE6?) give us this possibility.

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Now that our Linux system is ready (for more information have a look at part 1 of this article) we can now move on to installing Business Objects XI 3.1.

In this article, I won’t go through the entire installation process since there aren’t any significant differences to point out when compared to it’s Windows counterpart. If you’re interested in a complete reference on this particular aspect I would recommend you review the official documentation which is available on the sap marketplace:

https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/support

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