>>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Currently we are evaluating RedHat for z/Linux, since our current Intel web > services are based on RedHat, and we are just coming to the end of a 30 day > trial. Guess we should give SuSe a go!
Three comments... - Of course you should evaluate SLES, regardless of what you're currently running on midrange hardware. If you look back at some of my older presentations and articles, i.e. from before I came to work for Novell, I've always advocated looking at more than just one distribution. You would be doing yourself and your employer a disservice if you do otherwise. - The evaluation period for SLES for System z is 180 days. - In either case, the 30 days from Red Hat, or the 180 days from Novell, the end of the time period doesn't mean you have to stop evaluating the software. It just means that you won't have access to maintenance updates after that point, unless/until you purchase a subscription. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
