Novell today announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, "the only open source, enterprise-class real-time operating system available in the market today". Novell says: "Enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 include the latest enterprise-hardened open source technologies that reduce system latency or delay and improve predictability, such as CPU shielding, priority inheritance, sleeping spinlocks, interrupt threads, high-resolution timers and the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution for commodity high-speed interconnects, OFED 1.2.5. As a result, customers gain time advantage over competitors"
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Member since:2007-03-31
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?
Member since:2005-07-06
"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."
My own experience with RH support was/is far better. But YMMV I guess.
"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."
No idea. Have you asked them?
"They said xen was too fast intgrated i te competitor's product etc."
And they were right. RHEL5 is the first distribution to get Xen integrated like it should... and even now Xen is semi-mature.
"The products SLES vs RH is basically the same."
I have insufficient experience with SLES to make this judgment.
But again, in my experience RedHat's support thus far is/was AA.
"Novell is with SLES 10 S1 more mature compared to RHAS 5,"
Can you back this claim with numbers?
P.S. it's SLES 10/S1 vs RHEL 5.1.
"cheaper as well with the offering."
Huh?!?!? [1], [2]
At least in my case (Israel) SLES is -far- more expensive.
"The only reason people seem to stay with RH is because they use v3 and v4 so easier to administer."
I wasn't an RHEL user.
I used a very limited number of RHEL4 machines.
Most of my machines are RHEL5. (I'm not an sysadmin; We use RHEL as part of our software package)
"Real administrators know that even those differences are next to none."
Again, unless you have solid numbers to back that "real administrations" one can only assume that you're just making this up.
"I don't get warm feelings with RH."
Nobody is forcing your hand...
"They *know* people will chose RH so why do your stinking best?"
A. There's no need to start trolling. ("stinking")
B. Because they are trying to get Windows administrators to convert to Linux/RHEL?
... I really don't understand why you (obviously) hate RedHat so much. What have they done to offend you so much?
- Gilboa
[1] http://www.novell.com/products/server/pricing_euro.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html;jsessionid=ZZwzOAcMc...
Member since:
2005-07-06
"(at least Novell wants your business, RH seems to be less interested these days)"
HUH?!?!?
- Gilboa "Very satisfied RHEL customer" Davara.