[TriLUG] RHES

[Kevin Flanagan]

My employer is also in the midst of an evaluation, we are looking to
standardize on one flavor, but face some of the same questions as you.
Support, cost of Hardware, etc.

I would look carefully at the history of the application in question.
If it started life and has been running on UNIX for a long time, then
I'd stay away from Windows, (all other reasons aside).  

Mac OSX and it's like appear, from my distant view, to be great on the
desktop, but I would doubt it's server creds until I check it out fairly
carefully. 

Hopefully that's useful things to think about.



Kevin

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 15:55 +0000, rwshep2000.2725323 at bloglines.com
wrote:

> One of our core applications is being ported to GNU/Linux, but the developer
> will only certify it for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (hereafter RHEL). Please
> do not suggest I try to run the application on a different flavor of Linux.
>  The vendor certifies it only for RHEL, and won't officially support other
> distros.



> 
> We're evaluating upgrades, and the supported OS are IRIX,
> Solaris, OSX, Windows and now RHEL.  Each has strengths and weaknesses, obviously.
>  In order to make as informed a decision as possible, I'd like to learn about
> the strengths and weaknesses of RHEL.
> 
> We're unhappy with the expensive
> boutique hardware of SGI, and are likewise skeptical of Sun.  Apple OSX is
> very much a contender.
> 
> However, we're drawn to the commodity prices of
> x86 hardware, as well as the more general availability of parts and service.
>  RHEL presents us with a new means to enjoy x86 hardware.
> 



> * How
> often have you folks had to rely on Red Hat's technical support, and how would
> you rate it?
> * Have you experienced any trouble with RHEL "officially" supporting
> various hardware, or run into other distro-specific restrictions?
> * Allowing
> that we do have Linux expertise, would you choose RHES over OSX?
> 


-- 
Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>