Thanks, in our case we would be an enterprise "buyer", so support shouldn't be an issue (in theory) <g>.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL > Without wishing to stir up a firestorm here, we are working on a proof > of concept project here with RHEL on z series hardware. I have noticed > that most of the questions here seem to be about SLES...so I was > wondering why? On zSeries, RH was a latecomer to the game (by almost a year), and sacrificed the installation momentum advantage to SuSE in terms of number of installed copies and vendor certification. That advantage has continued to widen, courtesy of a lot of poor marketing by RH (to the point of RH salesvermin telling customers not to use RHEL on Z but buy Intel instead), and slow certification of popular middleware. In our testing, both are comparably stable, but have problems in different areas (for SuSE, primarily in the installer, and for RH, differing locations for common files from the LSB and finding anyone in their support org competent to handle questions on non-Intel platforms). RH also has a very restrictive support policy for instances on zSeries that makes non-enterprise customers choke compared to the liberal support policy provided by SuSE/Novell. In general, companies that already have significant relationships with RH appear to be the major population of RHEL users on Z due to expanding the existing enterprise support contracts being easier than dealing with a new vendor. SuSE has consistently been faster to the mark and shown more commitment to the platform, and is usually the first of the two major commercial distributions to deploy new Z-specific features (Debian and Slackware often beat both). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
