Bjoern Voigt wrote:
I am more concerned about my customers. Some of them use SLES, but most prefer Windows servers. They use old versions of SLES and Windows and relatively old server hardware. Already now it is difficult to persuade customers to upgrade their SLES mayor version e.g. to get more recent database server versions. If they hear, that the next SLES will not support their old hardware, they will probably use SLES 11 until EOL and then move everything to Windows server. You said, nothing comes for free. But loosing SLES customers is also problem. Greetings, Björn
Leap 15.5 (= SLE 15 SP5) will be supported till the end of 2024, with x86-64-v1 support. With SLE subscription you'll get up to 5 or 10 years of support for it. Windows Server (and Windows 8.1 64-bit & newer) requirements (CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, PrefetchW at least as NOOP) means using CPUs that are newer than Intel Nehalem (x86-64-v2, 2008 year), for AMD it'll be AMD K8 on AM2 (2006 year). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/hardware-requir... What hardware is in use by your customers? Server hardware upgrade can be very profitable - less machines, less space, much less power bills.