[ale] One companies decision on Redhat

[Bob Toxen]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I thought that the blurb I received would be interesting for those watching 
> the response to RedHat's announcement about ending the RHseries and going 
> to the Enterprise edition as their product.  This company makes Nuclear 
> Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers and is based out of Germany.  They used to 
> just ship SGI workstations with their NMRs but then switched for a very 
> short time to NT.  Now they ship Linux as an option.  Theis excerpt is out 
> of their newsletter.
One of my clients just reached a decision on this.  Their server provides
Apache, email (via sendmail), Major Domo, and WebMail, all Open Source
products.

I'll just monitor the mailing list for security-related patches and download
the source from whomever.com and install.  Who needs Red Hat.  We won't be
shaken down Microsoft-style.

I bet business will be up at Mandrake, SuSE, and Slackware!

> Dow
Bob



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> Red Hat informs on its website

>   www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/

> about life cycles and support of its products. In principle, the
> maintenance of these operating systems that are currently supported by
> Bruker BioSpin will be stopped by Red Hat at the end of December 2003.
> Because of this, and for future maintenance, Bruker BioSpin has decided
> to switch to the Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 edition
> (www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ws/). This version is currently being
> tested by Bruker BioSpin on our new PC generation, the HPxw4100 system.
> If all tests are successful, then we will officially start to support
> this operating system within the next 4-6 weeks on newly delivered
> workstations. The configuration of the HPxw4100 PC is as follows:

> - 2.4 to 2.8 GHz Pentium 4
> - 80 GB EIDE ATA/100 7200 Harddisk
> - 512 MB (2x 256 MB) PC3200 DDR400
> - Floppy Disk Drive
> - 48x CD RW Drive
> - NVIDIA Quadro4 380XGL
> - HP Optical ScrollMouse USB
> - EASY ACCESS Keybaord US/ENGL.
> - Second Network Card: NetExtreme 10/100/1000 (Broadcom chipset)

> All other (older) hardware combinations may also work but will not be
> tested by Bruker BioSpin.
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