On Monday 21 August 2006 00:20, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
Not sure what you mean here. SLES has a guaranteed support life span of seven years
And it will cost $2,095 per server for those 7 years, just for the privilege of SLES. (Three years of updates for SLES is $873, one year is $349, vs. $0 for Ubuntu and Debian)
I was responding to John's comment about the life span of SLES. I'm not a sales guy, so I really don't want to get into a discussion about pricing.
You're missing the key. It's not SLES vs. Microsoft. It's SLES vs. OpenSUSE vs. Ubuntu vs. Debian. I certainly can't justify the extra thousands per server of SLES over the others to my boss.
The key is "certifications". If you want support from companies like Oracle, you need that, and those cost money.
OpenSUSE, if the trend of 10.1 continues, will be too suspect to run on production servers, just like Fedora. If that's the case, I'll be moving to Ubuntu or Debian, and so will an awful lot of others. I know of several that have already made the switch.
Between 10.1 and the announcement of GPL-only in OpenSUSE,
You talk about moving to Debian, and then in the next breath you complain that openSUSE consists of only open source (not just GPL by the way) software. Forgive me, but I fail to see the logic. What do you think Debian consists of? The "add-on" CD with third party software was available already during the beta phase for openSUSE, it just wasn't shipped along with it. I can't say exactly why, but I'd be willing to bet it has to do with licensing issues And openSUSE being developed in the open, you have every opportunity to test it as it's being put together, and raise your complaints while there is still time to do something about it. have you installed openSUSE 10.2 alpha yet?