This is a typical commercial pitch I would expect from MS or other corporate drones. A bunch of meaningless buzz words used out of content. Are you a sales person by the chance? What kind of crap you're talking about? Why do I and our other engineers need 5 years maintenance? What is a maintenance? Blow dust from our boxes? Why do we need all these certifications if we know what we're doing? What is "enterprise-class hardware" you're talking about. We're designing circuits which used anywhere - from your cell phone to jet fighters. You can make any hardware to be an enterprise-class. What is "mission critical"? A nuclear plant or a ballistic missile? Why reinstall every two years instead of simply upgrading systems to the next version? What kind of bull shit is this? I hope you're not on drugs. On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:54 am, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Some features of Enterprise server products:
5 years maintenance certifications and support of ISV (oracle, ibm, sap) certfications and support of IHV (ibm, hp, dell) security certifications (common criteria) support for enterprise-class hardware (SAN...) manageable with ZENWorks
In other words, when ever you'll have some thing important to do on those servers (like running mission critical ERP or business critical webshop or even network infrastructure servers) and you don't want to reinstall them every 2 years you need Enterprise products.
Professional is for techie play, Enterprise is for serious production.
Just read the site: http://www.suse.de/en/business/products/server/ It's too much to tell in a single email.