Hi Narendra, On 02/02/2011 06:27 PM, narendra babu wrote: > Hello folks , > > Could you please let me know what are the major differences on the > application tools and admin side, pkg management , ease of installation , > patch management support and maintenance for RHEL and SUSE . > > i have done some search on the same, but could get only marketing info from > Redhat and suse saying one is better than another . >
In my completely biased opinion, I would say go with RHEL simply because the maximum number of contributions to the most commonly used applications that you might run on an Enterprise system come from Red Hat[1]. So: a. Bug/Security fixes in an application tend to be relatively quicker when the upstream maintainer works for the company (ie: in most probability the maintainer is going to consider the bug originating from a Red Hat support ticket on a higher priority than a bug originating from the community because that is what he/she is paid to work on). b. When you are speaking with a Red Hat support engineers they have direct access to the maintainer of the package. It is not uncommon for support guys to copy/paste verbatim messages from the upstream developers into their tickets. So, resolving issues (I am not speaking of bugs here, rather, in terms of configuration or the 'what/why-is-this-happening' type of issues) is easier. c. Red Hat's support life cycle is better defined and more consistent than Suse's[2] (ie: is not dependent on how 'big' is the volume of your purchase). ...and lastly also because, Red Hat has been consistent in its dealings with both the community and its customers for a long time -- unlike Novell[3] cheers, - steve [1] Compare: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions to http://www.novell.com/company/affiliations/ [2] Compare: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ to http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ [3] Compare: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061103073628401 to http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2009021611190551 http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/ (specifically Q5) -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
