What is a SAP landscape?

[Platypus]

I'm confused!

Is a landscape a collection of instances of the same application (e.g. R/3 production, pre-prod, QA, etc) ?

Or the collection of applications, e.g. Production R/3, BW, CRM is one landscape, and the QA versions of the same apps are another landscape?

Or a mix of the above? e.g. Landscape 1 is R/3, BW and CRM apps, production, pre-prod and QA databases. Landscape 2 is the same but containing a different set of data (maybe for a different part of the company)?

Thanks

[DimPrawn]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SAP-R-Dummie.../dp/0764503758

[Drewster]

Isn't it just the same as a SAP Portrait..... with a slight rotation

[Mich the Tester]

An expensive mess.

[NotAllThere]

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AIUI, it's rather humpty-dumpty.

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