n Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: > The only _real_ difference between now and before is that you don't have a > choice of support or not if you want to use SuSE's Linux/390, and there's no > way to "test drive" the distribution before deciding to buy or not.
And both of these are potential deal-killers. Because you haven't bought *vendor* support doesn't mean you haven't bought support--Cygwin did well for years with *that* model. Further, in today's space, a lot of shops looking at Linux on the S/390 have enough depth of Linux experience that they're planning on being their own support. And not being able to test drive for something you're probably planning on using to replace a substantial chunk of your infrastructure is not pretty. Adam
