On Monday 06 March 2006 17:15, John Pugh wrote:
> > That's sales talk too. RH is WAY ahead in installations.
>
> Sales talk, yes. That's my job.
> Being way ahead and staying way ahead are two very different points.
Hehe, it would take SuSE years to get close. EXCEPT for the European market.
That's where their main growth is.
> Being a public forum, I'll spare the chit-chat, but will point out that
> while most large, technically savvy organizations will not divulge their
> technology there are MANY that are moving away from RH to SUSE. The ones
> without a linux strategy where RH and SUSE are compared have all gone
"Have all gone", is a generality and simply not true.
> with SUSE Linux. Read into it as you wish. The technology is very
> similiar - the ecosystem around it is VERY different.
Quite true.
However, 63% of the companies that moved to SuSE have return to RH after six
to twelve months, siting too many incompatibilities where Novell is not being
included in updates due to their configuration standards.
--Steve Szmidt
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