On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM, six-pack to be <[email protected]>wrote:
> Would you please help me understand the following:
> 1- Novel's site claims:
> 2- Sun claims
> Lastly where does Red Hat stand?
>
I would posit that it makes no difference. Every bit of what you've
described sounds like marketing hype that is meaningless to the final
installed system. All three are solid software distributions, with strong
backing and fantastic support (if you pay for it). Sun has the stigma that
Oracle is being a little... flaky, but they've been great in the past, and
have a large commercial base - so I don't see Oracle writing off Solaris
anytime soon.
Find the applications (or application types) that you need. Check for
support for SuSE, RedHat, and Solaris (you mentioned Sun, I assume
Solaris). If any of the three are not supported by your application's
vendor, then write them off. If all of them are supported by your
application vendors, start looking at OS support (namely, software technical
support available from RedHat, Sun, or Novell). My guess is that they all
will offer very similar levels of support, but there may be a price
difference.
Also, all three have a free version available - so try them out, see which
one is the most comfortable to you. If you hate using yum, it doesn't
matter whether RedHat is supported by your software vendors, since you won't
want to install software using RedHat's package manager. Same goes for
YaST/SuSE and whatever goes on with Solaris (very little experience there).
None will be a magic bullet (everything to all people), which is why you
will constantly hear "try them out!". That's the beauty of free software
that you can get with paid support... try before you buy.
--
Daniel
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