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You do know RH has a similar product not out yet, as they want everything to be open source before launching, no I do not work for them. There is a slight difference here.

Novell for the immediate future, as there are some money to save on Real Time,if a need for a RT system. Issue is the Concurrent partnership- where,what will happen?

Boils down to: Novell better tools, better RT system now, RedHat might be a better long term option. IBM Websphere Java will be available for RH, not Novell one example. Also look into Concurrent's patches not all open-source by some claims.

A lot of ppl do tend to forget another player here: SUN has some serious benchmarks and clients to show for in the RT space.

But as always as for client that wants this, ask for test cases that would be similar to what you will be using it for and if you are a large client, well then let them use you in their marketing as this is an emerging market for both of the Linux Players ( don't forget SUN here as well) and that can save you a lot of money.

Happy hunting :-)

"(at least Novell wants your business, RH seems to be less interested these days)"

HUH?!?!?

- Gilboa "Very satisfied RHEL customer" Davara.

we were reviewing Novell vs RH these days. It took one cal to get novell here. It took 4 calls (!), lnuxworld _and another two calls before RH came over to us.

And then, the only thing they could tell us that they were so much better than the competitors. They are open source only etc. So where is the satellite code? Stuff like that. They said xen was too fast intgrated i te competitor's product etc.

The products SLES vs RH is basically the same. Novell is with SLES 10 S1 more mature compared to RHAS 5, cheaper as well with the offering.

The only reason people seem to stay with RH is because they use v3 and v4 so easier to administer.

Real administrators know that even those differences are next to none.

I don't get warm feelings with RH. They *know* people will chose RH so why do your stinking best?

Red Hat already has a Real Time product which is about to be released in the early 2008: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/fis.html

Red Hat already has a Real Time product which is about to be released in the early 2008:

... And Novell just released theirs. I thought using unreleased products to compete against actual released products was a Microsoft trademark?

Am I the only one who thinks that this sort of FUD against a "Real Time" product is funny?

How do you quantify such a statement - personally I think all the Linux companies right now are doing a pretty piss poor effort at addressing the desktop. The lack of actually teaming up with big companies and getting them to develop on the platform. The lack of movement forward in regards to bringing harmony between the various desktops, the lack of support by these companies to developing GTKMM so that developers aren't for ever crippled with needing to write in C or a slew of immature languages.

Getting back ontopic, its good to see that Novell is pushing their products forward in the enterprise market, even with the screaming from wall street for a slash 'n burn approach to cost management - someone needs to remind wall street that you can't build a damn thing without men on the production floor, or in the case of programming, bums on seats. You can't just magically click ones fingers and voila, productivity appears out of no where. One can't just click fingers and voila, a product appears out of no where.

Hopefully we'll see in the long term a company which is focused on delivering what the customer needs rather than this over the top fixation on 'the community' - as if a fortune 500 company actually gave a toss over whether a given software supplier is 'nice to the opensource community'.

SLED is the Novell effort that's being deployed at peugeot rance IIRC.

How about that? Nvell does a pretty good job here too.