RHEL vs SUSE

[Mike Cronenworth]

Hi all,

The company I work for wants to force me to develop under SUSE instead 
of what I requested: RHEL. I program for a small part of the company 
that is usually forgotten about as currently our customers are running 
our software on SCO. However, the larger part of my company is using 
SUSE as their future environment and they wish to develop all softwares 
on a single platform.

I don't blame them for wanting a single OS, but I'd love some material 
showing how RHEL would benefit a smaller sized business market versus 
SUSE. Is there a page similar to Novell's[1] marketing page that I could 
use as ammunition for my choice for RHEL? A Red Hat sales representative 
won't change their minds. Only I could, and I think my chances of 
winning are slim to none. Red Hat's interaction with the community and 
the community's interaction with Red Hat has substantial more value in 
my eyes than SUSE's reliance upon Microsoft's bidding.

Thanks,
Mike

P.S. I was given a copy of RHEL 5 a few months ago, but strangely they 
have changed their minds.

[1] http://www.novell.com/products/server/compare.html
(click on the Red Hat tab to see the SUSE versus RHEL comparison)