SuSE got it long ago, back before 8.1.7 was released
for (any) Linux.
They still had it, even when Red Hat and Oracle had a
spat (at least in the marketing area).
SuSE knew what they were doing then (8.1.6), those
people are largely still on staff (check the archived
of the ORACLE-LINUX-L mailing list that used to be on
Fatcity).
IBM had strong ties to SuSE, particularly in the days
when some in the community feared that Red Hat was
becoming too dominant.
Most of SuSE's talent is in Nurenberg, but they had an
office in Redwood Shores. Provided that Novell leaves
SuSE alone, SuSE should continue to be a premier linux
distro.
If you plan to deploy any servers in Europe, I'd
choose SuSE. Here in the US, the marketing ties are
just too strong for the choice of supported distro to
be Red Hat. I guess its time for me to let go of the
RH 7.0/gcc/cvs/wtf? release.
Pd
- Michael Thomas <mhthomas_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks pd for the info. I just checked...
>
> 1) go to this link:
>
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/developer/
> under "Standard Developer Subscription"
> click on "Subscribe Now"
> and pay $299 USD (hey, where's my commission ;-)
>
> 2) Notice you get access to any of the three
> enterprise versions (WS, AS, ES) for download from
> RHN, and you can use either 2.1 or 3.0. You get full
> RHN to get updates, etc.. But, you can not use any
> of
> these s/w for a production server. The limit is you
> can only register five servers, e.g. "Five 1-year
> entitlements to any Red Hat software product".
>
> 3) The full scoop is:
> Standard Developer Subscription
>
> * Five 1-year entitlements to any Red Hat
> software
> product
> * Easy ISOs: OS, Source, and Documentation ISO
> Images
> * Red Hat Network Update Module Service 1-year
> * Quarterly OS Updates
> * Beta Program Participation (coming soon)
> * Access to all white papers and case studies
> (coming soon)
> * Available via download only
>
> 4) <RANT> My opinion is that RH is the way to go on
> LINUX today. After Novell bought SUSE, I think for
> legal reasons, I expect SUSE to slip behind RH on
> features for the next few months. Now that's sure to
> offend someone, sorry. No worries, because I'm told
> that I'm wrong about this, but to me Novell has been
> dead for me (ex CNE and C/C++ NLM developer) for a
> couple years. I attended all the Novell conferences
> where the competent developers kept leaving and the
> guys pushing the slides last year were doing the
> presentations next year. The problem being they had
> no
> idea about technical stuff. So, I expect the
> Novell-SUSE relationship may slow down SUSE progress
> on LINUX, even though SUSE remains in europe.
> </RANT>
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Thomas
>
> (PS: Jonathan, this has got to be a pain after you
> already paid for SUSE. I didn't know either. Ugh.)
>
> --- Paul Drake <discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > --- Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com> wrote:
> > > Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 5:13:57 PM, Paul
> Drake
> > > (discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > PD> I didn't follow thru on installing white box
> > > linux.
> > > PD> Red Hat came thru with a reasonably priced
> > > developer
> > > PD> edition - 5 seats of software with support
> for
> > 1
> > > year,
> > > PD> $299. That entitles you to WS, ES or AS
> > > editions.
> > >
> > > This I would be interested in. However, and
> please
> > > forgive
> > > my cluelessness here, I can find no mention of
> it
> > on
> > > Red
> > > Hat's web site.
> >
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > I can't find my original link.
> > I had to get the url from Red Hat sales.
> > The wait on hold was rather lengthy, but once I
> > asked
> > him about a developer edition he gave me the url.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > > I see a Workstation (WS) edition for
> > > $299,
> > > but I don't see a developer edition that gives
> AS
> > > for that
> > > price. Could I get you to provide a link?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where
> you
> > > are
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> > > mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com
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