On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:09, Marcus Meissner wrote:
I'd much prefer a patch AND upgrade in-place for a given period of time - say 5 years minimum. I like the Ubuntu Long Term Support promise.
This is what SLES and SLED are for...
As I mentioned to Dirk, some sites I support are running SLES. I just replaced a SuSE 7.2 server with SLES, after begging the owners to upgrade for years. The box was behind a firewall and they were perfectly happy to run it forever. The only reason they upgraded was they finally filled the raid array. But at $800 per year its fairly expensive. Even the cheapest support option run $350/yr. Once they buy Windows 2003 Server, they are done paying. Its a tough sell put SLES in a small shop. A 7 person business looks very closely at an $800 maintenance contract. But I understand that SuSE/Novell have to make money if I expect them to be there in 6 years. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen