On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, John R Pierce wrote: > Alexander Farber wrote: >> You don't know our situation and already have an opinion. >> >> We already spent 400000 Euro for SW licenses this year >> (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, >> so I can understand that management tries to save some money. >> > > > do you understand that if there is ANY issue which could be an OS related > problem that even possibly could be caused by mixing builds of RPMs, SAP will > not support you, and that e400K investment will be near worthless? Actually it is trending towards worthless as soon as SAP says "please update package X to the latest version from Red Hat" and you can't do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine