REDHAT vs SUSE *Ding-Ding

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 20 March 2009 08:54:50 Jeffrey O'brien wrote:
> I've been asked by a customer for some info regarding RedHat vs SUSE.  This company was told to use SUSE but can also use RedHat.  I personally, am a RedHat fan boy and haven't played with SUSE that much so my opinion is somewhat bias plus I have a preso from my RedHat rep which bashes SUSE from a business/Company side as well as a few technical reasons.  Are there any advantages of SUSE over RedHat?

Novell will patch things into the kernel for customers that upstream wouldn't
touch with a ten foot pole (and by extension, Red Hat won't touch either).

Some see that as a benefit, but I suspect that's actually one of the negatives
in the presentation by your Red Hat rep (its two words, btw, "Red Hat", not
"RedHat").

> So I thought I would reach out to this large Linux user base for everyone who wants to chime in on any points of why you would pick one or the other, business, partnerships, technical, supportability, reputation, viability in the enterprise, application support, which you like working with from an administrative view point, etc...  This is really open ended.

Given that I work at Red Hat, I'm way too heavily biased to participate 
other than to try to counter any arguments in favor of SUSE. :)

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Jarod Wilson
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