linuxplanet.com — The server market is shaping into a Linux vs. Windows battle as UNIX declines. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is strong and growing. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), backed by Novell, should also be strong and growing, but it isn't as it continues the Novell tradition of continually getting whipped by Microsoft. Does SLES even have a reason to exist?
Mar 18, 2009 View in Crawl 4
mrviklundMar 18, 2009
Are you stupid? Can't believe this is coming from the linuxplanet.com...
painhertzMar 18, 2009
It's the force behind my z9/EC. Virtualize me!
Closed AccountMar 18, 2009
SUSE is only useful if you allow the Microsoft Mafia to scare you with their silly ranting about mythical patents.
Closed AccountMar 19, 2009
PR salvos getting fired back and forth don't really have any effect on the quality of the distro and underlying technology. When I supported SLES servers I had no problem with them, I even had one that had an uptime of 15 months when it finally got decommissioned. I'm not a huge fan of Yast but it worked well enough and for all its clunkiness I never ran into dependency problems.Having said that, the primary reason we were a Novell shop at the time and it worked well enough for our needs without having to fire up a support contract with yet another vendor. I'm not apes**t over the distro, but it did what I needed reliably so I was happy with it.
Closed AccountMar 19, 2009
"The article isn't about how bad or good SUSE is, or what contributions it makes to FOSS-- it's about its viability as a serious enterprise contender."To me that's actually a point in SLES's favor. While I question the wisdom of Novell's business relationship with Microsoft, Novell's support engineers are sharp people. Having a linux distro in the data center with vendor support from a company like Novell is not a bad thing.