We run SuSE linux but have our support contract with IBM. My understanding is that our intel folks run RedHat but have their support contract through HP. If the RedHat license includes support is any support from the hardware vendor still needed or is the RedHat support sufficient?
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:30 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL Ann, No, it's not priced by virtual machine. When RHEL3 first came out it was priced by CP or IFL, just as it is now. However, they placed a limit of 25(?) systems per CP/IFL for a given license. That was later dropped. So, as many guests as you can squeeze onto any given processor are all covered by one license charge. All, please read the article at zJournal. One of the reasons why Red Hat _appears_ to be so much more expensive is that support is bundled into the license fee, whereas with Novell, that is a separate charge. Part of the reason why Red Hat lags a little today is due largely to the timing of their release cycles, and partly because they refused to incorporate any of the mainframe-specific patches unless they were in the official source tree that Linus maintains. While SUSE has been a little more flexible about that, my sources tell me that they're starting to lean towards the same approach Red Hat has taken. With the IBM developers being _very_ successful in getting their changes integrated into the official 2.6 source tree, I believe that the future will see any differences in functionality being purely a result of release cycle timing. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:13 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL RH is priced by virtual machines now???? Maybe that's where the Netbackup vendor got the idea. Last time I had checked RH was only twice as much as SuSE for the license. But as to the real reason we run SuSE- RedHat at least used to lag behind a year or 2 is providing new features that we needed such as SAN and hipersockets. Has RedHat finally caught up in functionality? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ************************************************************************* This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. ************************************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
