Matthias Schroeder wrote:
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I will be setting up a server for Cadence chip design software, and
that company specifies Enterprise Linux 5 from "The Upstream Vendor"
for the OS, accept no substitutes.
This is the case with a lot of commercial software.
The cost of [T.U.V.] EL5, with support, is miniscule compared to the
CAD tool licenses, so I have
no problem with running that.
The other half dozen existing machines are SL5 (and one CentOS5),
and will not be running Cadence, so they will stay with SL5. I
am assuming that these machines will coexist peacefully;
So would I.
I will
keep them separate, and not ask TUV tech support any SL5 questions.
With my SLx experience, I probably won't need any tech support
at all. I assume Cadence specifies an EL5 support contract so
that Cadence isn't saddled with OS vendor questions from newbies.
If you ever did user support you know these cases where the user
'changed nothing, I promise you' except perhaps that print statement...
They just want to make sure the base OS _is_ identical, and that there
are no changes that should not make a difference, except if ...
So, the question is, does anyone know of any technical or legal
or business reasons why mixing SL5 and "TUVEL5" is difficult?
No.
Or is this going to be very easy, like I expect?
I would be surprised if not. You will have the extra work to set up the
infrastructure for the TUV machine(s), but the boxen themselves will be
nice to each other.
Matthias
Keith
Look closely at the agreement you are expected to sign for RHEL.
I have had a look at SLES a couple of times, and best I could figure it
_for SLES_ is that the free evaluation entitles one to free access to
the support network (within limits, of course) for the evaluation
period. Once the evaluation period expires, one must pay up to maintain
access to (for example) software updates, but I do not recall any
obligation or expectation any the SLES copies running will be nuked.
That aside, I've seen SLED 10.0 on magazine covers twice.
It might be worth getting an evaluation licence for RHEL to see whether
you can find any problems in your environment.
Given the aims of the CentOS, I'd be every surprised if there are any
problems on that front (and presumably the folk there would be keen to
attend to them). I'm less clear on the aims of SL except for its
emphasis on the scientific community and support for Java and some other
stuff.
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John
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