[ale] Fedora install?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

SLES is gaining some marketshare here in the U.S.  Since the Attachmate purchase of Novell and separating SUSE back off as a separate company, things are looking up.  They are aggressively marketing to the U.S. market now.  I have noticed that a lot more applications are starting to support SLES.  However, you are correct that RHEL is still the main distro in the U.S.  Probably more like by 70-75% instead of 95%, though.  I think the acceptance and use of CentOS in professional datacenters and the proliferation of Oracle's bastardized RHEL clone is doing more to chip away at their customer base than SUSE, though.  VMware and Microsoft have both helped to push SUSE. If you purchase VMware with the right agreements, you get unlimited SLES guests for free.  Microsoft prefers SLES as a HyperV guest, and they still have some sort of a weird licensing arrangement with them.
I'm lucky enough to have been here long enough that I got to set the direction for our Linux implementation before Red Hat got their claws in - I realize that this is not a luxury that most people have.  I was working with SUSE before Novell acquired them, when it was still spelled S.u.S.E. and was an acronym.  It makes me happy to see them growing, instead of on the decline.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of leam hall [leamhall at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:45 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Fedora install?

Hey Chuck,

My comment is not based on the quality of  OpenSuSE or SLES. Both are great products. However, the US market seems about 95% RHEL for server class installs. In Europe it's probably that many for SLES.

That's why I feel my comment is valid; if you want a high paying job in the US, learn RHEL. Most large companies use RH over any other Linux/BSD distro. That's not to say RHEL is the best engineered solution, but it's the common Open Source OS in the US marketplace.

Leam
 -- Who user to be a closet NetBSD wannabe...


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com<mailto:terrorpup at gmail.com>> wrote:
Leam,

Not to start a distro fight, but that last statement not true.

If you want to work *with* Linux, use *buntu. If you want to work *on*
Linux, use CentOS.

I management about 300+ servers and two data centers, and they are a
mix of CentOS and openSUSE. I can manager all my server and get a lot
done using openSUSE as my desktop.


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