Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx>]

On 30/11/10 22:46, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> [...]
> Yes, we all know about CentOS, and a few know a few things about CentOS
> and Redhat I won't be citing in public (but let's say that some people
> who might or might not be working for Redhat have or haven't said that
> they believe that CentOS is effectively helping them spreading RHEL, but
> only off the record. or not.). But there are no hard facts or numbers to
> give any proof or guarantee that it would be the same with an "openSLES".

It's interesting to hear about the unconfirmed points of view regarding
the relationship of CentOS and RHEL. I have in fact posted a similar
comment a couple of weeks ago on the German mailing list, based on my own
experience in the Oil&Gas business where we have large numbers of servers
and compute clusters. For me it looks like CentOS is actually helping
RedHat boost their business.

> And, personally, the last thing I'd want is people from Novell/SUSE
> losing their job because of that.

This would certainly be a bad development but very shortsighted on
Novell's (or whatever the name now is) side.

> [...]
> Long story short, I personally believe that the only viable option is
> "openSUSE LTS", but it does bring some technical challenges which
> require a certain number of committed contributors working on the
> maintenance.

I think the only feasible and viable solution given the current resources
was an openSLES, and I and my company would be looking forward to such a
solution. At the moment, we use RHEL and CentOS, just like many other
companies in the Oil&Gas business.

Regards,
Thomas
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