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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org