I agree with most of your information there, but I know that Oracle is still
honoring their Solaris support contracts (and will be for the long term;
there's good money there). OpenSolaris may be "killed off", but the project
is still a good representation of the technology available to Solaris (which
may be a paid product, but it is a good option, nevertheless). Novell's
corporate leadings may be in flux, as you say, but SuSE is still a solid
software distribution - and well supported (support for SuSE is not
exclusive to Novell - and it will not die even with the loss of Novell).
RedHat is certainly the most stable of the bunch, but corporate stability
should not be the lone deciding factor. Oracle may have closed Solaris from
public contribution, but it is heading in a predictable direction, and has
great integration with enterprise tools, like Veritas Cluster. SuSE's parent
organization may be fragmenting, but SuSE is only a part of what Novell had.
HP and IBM both offer high level support for SuSE - and those companies will
not be going anywhere, meaning there are several players in SuSE's lineup as
well.
Were I the one making the decision between these three, RedHat would win
based on personal preferences and prejudices. Since I am not the one making
the decision, it is important that there be impartial information about all
of them. Given impartial information, all three have real benefits, and
none is a clear winner for everybody.
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Daniel
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