I know you can buy IBM System x boxes with Red Hat pre-installed. (I don't recommend it, though. Their file system layout and package selection are pretty bad.) I'm not sure exactly what the situation with IBM in terms of buying Linux for the mainframe directly from them. (The whole area has obviously changed over the last few years, but I'm not clear on all the details.)
I've been in the situation of having to go through a hardware vendor to get Linux support. I don't recommend it much. From what I could see, it just slowed down problem resolution. It gave a few people involved in the problems a bit of a warm fuzzy that the vendor could say "we have no known Linux issues that match your problem" but I could do without that in return for direct support from the people that built the software in the first place. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:14 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL I did read the article but was confused by some of the parts about support. Can you now buy the RedHat linux from IBM for zseries or is it available from IBM just for other IBM platforms? I'm not up on the platforms IBM actually sells RedHat for. In any case, the few real problems we've had with SuSE linux have involved IBM hardware and the IBM support center worked out well for us. But perhaps the support from RedHat is good as well. In either case you have 2 vendors involved. And I admit it- I skimmed over the parts of the article that referred to those other platforms. The pressure to 'standardize' on one linux vendor is growing here so the information provided is very useful to us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
