> 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).
Well I think what is often most significant is the practical operational impact of bringing on yet another OS for those shops that already have a non-mainframe Linux install base. Sure, they are both Linux but RHEL and SLES are annoyingly different enough to cause increased work load for shops that are already predominantly RHEL or vice versa. Having all of your Linux servers (z or x86) on the same distro, regardless of which one, means you can leverage much of your existing policies, procedures and skill sets. -Sam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
