Alex, I am not a particularly large business (some say SLES is only for larger "enterprises"), but the extra $250 is easily worth it to me. I get security patches and guaranteed support -- and I access the update servers much more consistently. Plus much better support for real RAID cards, multiple-port NICs, etc. I'm not saying you cannot get them to work on any other version of Linux - its just saves me a lot of time. I hesitated on our last server - then realized that I would probably pay for the extra $250 several times over within a few months. In the future I may re-evaluate (especially if I need some bleeding edge features that I do from time to time), but for now its SLES. To each his own. - Richard Alex Daniloff wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:58:19PM -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
Richard, Thanks for your reply. Why should we spend additional $349 for SLES 9 if SuSE 9.2 shall install and work on 64-bit platform as it advertised? Doesn't it sound kind of MicroSoftish - paying more money for virtually the same functionality? For God sake Linux is Linux no matter who distributes it. We don't need any commercial phone support nether other Novell marketing pitches. Why SuSE 9.1 (before it was sold to Novell) 64-bit version installed on the same machine without a hitch? If it's going to be a new Novell marketing trend to charge separately for the each hardware platform then we'll have to kick SuSE from our eng. dept. for good and switch to other less greedy Linux vendor.
Alex
Alex,
I cannot comment on your specific situation. But can tell you that SLES 9 64-bit installs just fine on our dual Opteron servers. Better yet it comes as 5 CD's.
One good think that Novell did was drop the price of SLES 9 for x86 and AMD64 from $800 to $349. I "believe" its certified for that AMD controller also (for irony we use the Intel RAID controllers on our Opteron servers).
Its an option in case you cannot get 9.2 Pro to work.
- Richard
Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, We have a big problem - unable to install SuSE 9.2 on our new dual AMD-64bit Opteron machine with Adaptec 2120S RAID-5 controller. ... SNIP