On Mon, March 21, 2011 5:51 am, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> On Sun, March 20, 2011 7:29 pm, William Warren wrote: >>> their changes are really aimed at oracle..the rest is smoke and >>> mirrors..:) oracle is basically(pardon me here) Centos with charges. >>> That's basically all oracle is going with unbreakable Linux. >> >> Not just Oracle. Novell is actively pursuing Red Hat customers and >> offering to support their Red Hat installations cheaper than Read Hat >> does. I know a large international technology company which buys RHEL >> licenses only for the first year and then switches to Novell for support >> after that. > > Does Novell provide their own updates (RHEL rebuilds) or how does this > exactly work ? I doubt Novell can redistribute RHEL binaries in this case. As far as I understand (I don't have first-hand knowledge of this aspect of their offering), Novell is providing their own updates. Here is the link to their web page that advertises 30 day free support for RHEL: http://www.novell.com/promo/suse/free-30days-expanded-support.html Marko