>> 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. RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make sense to me that a business would buy RHEL support and then switch to opensuse.