28 May
2005
28 May
'05
9:06 a.m.
Hello Patrick,
I am working in a company in Germany, a big dealer for computer accessories.
Now we have bought some eCommerce software which is best used on RedHat
Enterprise Linux.
This costs about 900 Euros per year.
I suggested my boss to use a free edition of Linux, but they would like
have the Enterprise edition because of:
- there is integrated support and automatic updates (which is the only
thing you pay for)
- if we use a non-supported Linux for the eCommerce software, they can even
deny support
But the automatic updates, I don't like it because if you have a working
system, it could be dangerous to update the system. Recently we had some
problems because the java was too new. Because of this I disabled them and
look sometimes for security-critical updates.
cu, Michel
At 10:49 28.05.2005, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
I have a question for all of those who use Linux at
work. I am aware that
there are 2 major "enterprise" distros which are of course RedHat and
Novell/SuSE. Besides those, Mandriva, Ubuntu and especially SunJDS all
have commercial offers.
But which distros are _really_ used (on servers) here in Luxemburg, or in
Europe? Is RedHat also dominant here?
Do companies always go for commercial solutions, or are the non-commercial
ones catching up (I heard of Debian being used on a major site in
Luxemburg, and also being used in Munich)? If so, how is support organised?
The point of my question is not to find out what one should use at work,
but what is actually used, i.e. what decisions companies have taken in the
past. I suppose it is best not to mention the companies explicitely.
Thanks for your input.
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