On Sunday 20 August 2006 22:03, John Andersen wrote:
SuSE's 8 month release schedule has always been something of a mixed blessing. It kept your machines current when kernel development was fast and furious, but it is the bane of the corporate world, the very market that Marcus indicates is Novell's big concern.
Ubuntu is shouting about their Long Term Support, Quoting: "Ubuntu is freely available, including security updates for five years on servers, with no restrictions on usage and no requirement to purchase support contracts or subscriptions per deployment.".
In my market, (mostly small businesses) deploying SLES, which will be obsolete in two or three years VS Ubuntu with 5 years guaranteed support becomes harder to justify.
Not sure what you mean here. SLES has a guaranteed support life span of seven years