2011/3/1 <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >>---- Original Message ---- >>From: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop >>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:48:36 -0600 >> >>>On Monday 28 February 2011 13:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote: >>>> For those of you who have helped a company or organization migrate >>from >>>> Windows to Linux or from one Linux distro to another, what is your >>>> preference? >>> >>>The only time I've been involved in such a project it was from a >>hetrogenous >>>AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy) environment to a hetrogenous >>AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy)/SLES >>>environment. >>> >>>I would have recommended Debian instead, but I wasn't consulted. >>SLES allows >>>them to mostly operate in the same manner, as they were previously, >>though. A >>>shift to Debian would have required them to take a more active role >>in OS >>>issue diagnosis and remediation, but they have sufficient technical >>staff to >>>do so. >>>-- >>>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. >>>[email protected] ((_/)o o(\_)) >>>ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' >>>http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ >>> > Another consideration. Many enterprise companies are orgainzed such > that the IT (or equivalent) area reports in to the CFO who is a > businessman first and a technologist second. Such individuals often > come from IBM-like backgrounds with installation fees, maintenance > agreements and such. For these people distributions like RHE "feel > comfortable".
UBuntu lts is now very attractive to desktops, because of long support and it is also possible to buy support from canonical. -- Eero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
