REDHAT vs SUSE *Ding-Ding

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/20/2009 08:54 AM, 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?
>
> 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.
>   
I've used both. I currently run Fedora 10 on my home desktop, Ubuntu 
8.10 on my laptop, and RHEL 5.2 on 8 systems here at work, but I did use 
SuSE for years prior to last summer. I always preferred SuSE's YAST as a 
system admin tool in favor of Red Hat's system-confix-xxxx. This is all 
I'm going to contribute since the important issues are the enterprise 
support issues.  At Digital/Compaq/Hp many of the engineers preferred SuSE.

If I were to chose which enterprise product to run in a shop where I was 
the IT guy, I would probably chose Red Hat because I know a number of 
key technical people who I can call if I can't get support through 
channels.

One other thing to look at is what the customer is going to use Linux 
for, and who told them to use SuSE.  SuSE tends to have quite of bit of 
strength in the European market historically while Red Hat has a 
stronger presence here in the US.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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