RHEL vs SUSE

[Mike Cronenworth]

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Subject: Re: RHEL vs SUSE
From: Ben Kevan <ben.kevan at gmail.com>
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Date: 09/30/2008 03:30 PM
> I'd hate to say this but I've been overly disappointed with the RedHat Sales 
> and Technical personnel that have come in. In my work place I was actually 
> working to get SUSE, but a major project we are deploying only supported 
> RHEL4. 
> 
> With that said.. what kind of program are they wanting you to develop? You 
> should be able to easily use it for both distributions. 
> 
> Ben
> 

I would rarely ever need a support call out of SUSE or Red Hat. In fact, 
the larger side of my company doesn't set up any updates for SUSE and 
they always remain on the base version.

It's record keeping software for pharmacy. We'd be using PostgreSQL for 
the database. It's terminal based currently, with a transition to a GTK2 
environment sometime in the next few years.

I realize that they are essentially the same OSes with different names, 
but politically I am against SUSE. Also, there have been issues I've 
seen with SUSE on our bigger side of the company, which is already 
actively using SUSE. I guess in the end I will be developing in Fedora 
(as I do currently) and publishing in SUSE. Ugh.