On Wednesday 23 August 2006 05:09, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Personally, I don't know any small businesses that can afford SLES, or even medium size ones. It comes down to "1 SLES server or 2 Debian/openSUSE/etc Servers". It's rather hard to justify the cost, unless you're running massive applications like Oracle.
Depends on if you want to be able to get support from us or not ;)
Ciao, Marcus
I'm with Marcus here. Its not that hard to justify. I just installed SLES for a fairly small company. It wasn't that expensive. Got it from Dell along with the Server. The last SuSE I installed for them was 7.3 and they ran that till they filled the disks and decided to upgrade the server. I wanted to be able hand that account off to someone else and know they were still supported. Their entire business is on that server. They don't have big databases, just a huge inventory of files in a massive directory structure. It was not hard to justify SLES or the Raid Array, tape backup and UPS as big as a dog house, in the dual-everything server. It would have been harder for me to sell them an upstart Ubuntu system. Even small businesses of 10 to 20 people can easily justify SLES under that situation. You don't have to have a massive workload on the server to justify it. Just a lot of money riding on it. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen