We recently completed moving from SuSE to RedHat on the mainframe, to bring
the environment in-line with our Intel environment. This gave us one vendor
to deal with, and one common interface. (And, one common set of problems.)

We don't have to train people to do things one way with some systems, and a
different way with others. Maintenance was a nightmare because it was so
different between the two environments. Setting up new systems was
different. It was really like supporting two different operating systems.

Consolidating to a single distribution across all platforms saved us huge
amounts of time in terms of training and debugging.

--
Robert P. Nix          Mayo Foundation        .~.
RO-OC-1-18             200 First Street SW    /V\
507-284-0844           Rochester, MN 55905   /( )\
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same, but
 in practice, theory and practice are different."



On 2/27/12 8:25 AM, "Dazzo, Matt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have zvm with Redhat 5.6 in a test environment only. Redhat was originally
> selected as we have some Redhat intel servers in production and the thinking
> was keep it Redhat should we ever migrate from Intel over to zvm/linux. Not
> sure that will ever happen but we are confident that another application will
> come up in the future and it will go on zvm/Linux.
>
> Sorry for the long intro but wanted to describe the environment a little.
> Basically what flavor is better on zvm? Redhat or Suse? Maybe a better
> question is what are the differences? Any opinions or info is appreciated.
>
> Thanks Matt
>
>
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