RH is priced by virtual machines now???? Maybe that's where the
Netbackup vendor got the idea.
Last time I had checked RH was only twice as much as SuSE for the
license.
But as to the real reason we run SuSE- RedHat at least used to lag
behind a year or 2 is providing new features that we needed such as SAN
and hipersockets. Has RedHat finally caught up in functionality? 

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rich Smrcina
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL

SLES was first to the market and appears to have a better grip on the z
marketplace.  From what I've heard the RH pricing model is by how many
virtual machines you run, where the Novell pricing model is strictly by
how many CPUs you have.  RH lost some traction with their more stringent
non-OCO requirement (which may have helped more than not, since now the
OSA Express and 3590 drivers are OSS).

Others will certainly chime in with their reasons.

Evans, Kevin R wrote:
> 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?
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> Is this because:
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> RHEL is more stable (therefore less questions)?
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> SLES is used by more people (therefore more questions)?
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> Something else?
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> We are not set on a distribution yet although will be a choice between

> SLES and RHEL.
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> Inquiring minds want to know <g>.
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> TIA
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> Kevin
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