On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:15, Rohit Vishal Kumar wrote: > Somu: > > For some weird reason you email is getting a date tag of 1/1/99. If i > take this date tag to be correct then the question you have posed is > archiac. oops!! since it was a fesh installation and i omitted forcefully the date settings due to hurry.. > Siddhartha has already replied with some pretty powerful rejoinders to > your million Dollar Question.
in that case sumeet is absolutely right rather told what i'd like to... > However i would suggest a few more things: > > 1. Assess the needs of your client seriously. If they require Enterprise > wise solutions think of going with the enterprise version of any linux > Distro. Assessing is already being done and the two final distro trun out keeping security, stability, alliances with ISV/S, benchmarking, recommendatios from ent. like ibm,oracle,bea etc, ease of gettting the s/ws, support, updates, expertise & knowledge, hr etc etc is Redhat & Suse... > 2. Have you assessed the "learning curve" for the financial institution > (FI) and its clients? the money that will be saved in long run as well as in short will easyly compensate the learning curve(it is not abig deal) and both of them will be providing training at all levels. > Linux is fast, pretty, sexy but ... Would your FI > be willing to spend the time in learning linux, maintaining it and > trying to solve the headache of getting various data from various > suppliers on MS softwares? both if them has strong Windows legacy support.. > 3. As regards distros - i would always suggest that evaluate each distro > and choose the one that your IT people think would be the best to > maintain. Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, Gentoo... all are equally good at > doing the task. But each follow different philosophy - If you are > planning to offer KDE - easier integration is with SuSE, Gnome works > best with RH & Mandrake... Your choice not ours. > > Dont forget that the FI will be sinking a lot of money and resources in > building up this infrastructure. Which, i am sure that they will like to > maintain for a few years. It is not like us - we (individuals) have the > luxury of switching distros at will but your FI will not have the same > pleasure... So think carefully, evaluate and then go ahead. > > Personally i recommend RH or Mandrake followed by SuSE > RVK > somu. > > somu wrote: > > hello buddies!! > > > A million $question? Rehat or Suse (for server side as well as client > > side)? > > Looking forward to your suggestion and thank you all in advance > > > > somu > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
