<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>At this point in the inning, Ubuntu is the first known option. As part of my job, I would be in extreme error if I didn't look at all of the options. Looks like my weekend will involve downloading SuSE and Redhat enterprise versions :)<br><br>Sent from my mobile phone</div><div><br>On Nov 1, 2008, at 1:45 AM, "Jeffrey Watts" <<a href="mailto:jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com">jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>In terms of support staff, vendor partnerships, professional services, training, licensed support providers, etc it's like comparing the New York Yankees to the Kansas City T-bones. It's not about who you can call on the phone - it's about everything else.<br>
<br>They're nice, they can help out companies and can provide some good support, but for large businesses they're simply not on the same planet - not yet.<br><br>Ubuntu was designed to be a desktop OS. RHEL is an enterprise OS. Red Hat has built a pretty impressive support organization around it. Canonical is probably still 5-10 years away from being there, assuming they get traction in the business world.<br>
<br>Yes, RHEL licenses and so forth will cost them more than probably Canonical will, but then again if they have a network layout as he described, then Red Hat's fees won't faze them at all. What they'll probably want is assurance and capability.<br>
<br>Jeffrey.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Sean Crago <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cragos@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:cragos@gmail.com">cragos@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Just out of curiosity, have you tried Canonical's support? I'll not<br>
argue about the certifications (personally, I rather loathe the<br>
concept, but I'll grant that Canonical's can't be as widespread or<br>
mature), but I haven't seen enough either way to say that Canonical's<br>
paid support is any better or worse than Red Hat's. Have you?<br>
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Not an attack/really asking - It'd be good to hear what people have to<br>
say about them.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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