Am 21.03.2011 15:34, schrieb compdoc: >>> 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. With all respect, it is even strange to compare RHEL and OpenSUSE because OpenSUSE is for SUSE what Fedora is for RHEL (fast lifecycle, community driven/influenced development platform for the SLES product, which costs for subscriptions as well). Alexander