I suppose it depends on your engineering and QA practices and requirements. If you work for a shop that tests each OS extensively prior to deployment, develops custom packages, applications, etc. Then you are doing all of those things twice. Of course if you're not doing any of those things, or someone else is doing them and not you, then you probably would not care.
-Sam -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL As someone who supports both Red Hat and SUSE every day, these differences are pretty minimal. Anyone who can't handle both is probably already hurting for other reasons. If nothing else, having both on hand lets you swing one way or the other in your purchasing, based on who's been treating your better or worse lately. Telling your sales people this doesn't hurt either. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kielek, Samuel Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL -snip- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
