On 8/31/06, Kielek, Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suppose it depends on your engineering and QA practices and
requirements. If you work for a shop that tests each OS extensively
prior to deployment, develops custom packages, applications, etc. Then
you are doing all of those things twice. Of course if you're not doing
any of those things, or someone else is doing them and not you, then you
probably would not care.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Post, Mark K
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:48 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL
As someone who supports both Red Hat and SUSE every day, these
differences are pretty minimal. Anyone who can't handle both is
probably already hurting for other reasons. If nothing else, having
both on hand lets you swing one way or the other in your purchasing,
based on who's been treating your better or worse lately. Telling your
sales people this doesn't hurt either.
Mark Post
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kielek, Samuel
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:28 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL
-snip-
Well I think what is often most significant is the practical operational
impact of bringing on yet another OS for those shops that already have a
non-mainframe Linux install base. Sure, they are both Linux but RHEL and
SLES are annoyingly different enough to cause increased work load for
shops that are already predominantly RHEL or vice versa. Having all of
your Linux servers (z or x86) on the same distro, regardless of which
one, means you can leverage much of your existing policies, procedures
and skill sets.
-Sam
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We initially ordered Red Hat and after I battle with two technical
issues for over a month I decided to try SLES. The issues were around
VIPA and mounting sub-directories. The VIPA issue I never fixed.
The I/O errors when mounting sub-directories was fixed. I tried SLES
quitely on my own and after I proved everything working I had to
convince a lot of skepticals to switch to SLES. We have been running
SLES for over a year and we are happy with it.
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