Yes, but if you were a business would you buy SLED knowing that it is only one of many players and knowing what is happening? Business likes a winner and proven track record (which it had until recently). There are too many questions for anyone to risk going with SLED at this point in time in the present risk averse economy, IMO. That does not mean that SLED is not good. It just means there is significant risk attached and that risk is the wrong thing to be into in the present economy. They would have to sweeten the deal significantly to offset the risk for a business. That is just a opinion and nobody pays me for them, unfortunately. :)
If I had a choice I would go with RHEL or CENTOS. They have the same solid track record and have no risk attached. Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 27 December 2010 11:57, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
