Well, they're not fully out of the picture with RH. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/comparison/ Look at the machines that the main Enterprise AS is set up for - Supports IBM z, i, p and S/390 series systems Yes No No - the last 2 no's are for the Enterprise ES and the WS (WorkStation) versions. They do mention HP and others for compatibility, but... Maybe they won't buy based on Blue's going to mainly support, but as they say, "when the elephant turns..." I've been using RH since 5.0 in '97 and I like it sometimes. As a unix SA since 93 with HPUX, AIX, Xenix, and Sun, I found it a good practice area for certain things. I've only used Linux in the WS or home/desktop/laptop environs. I don't really need server type accouterments so it becomes as expensive as the M$. I hope this isn't what we have to look forward to as Linux grows and takes on big time trappings. _________________________________ >From RedHat web site -- on support -- Key certification platform Red Hat actively works to certify leading industry ISVs and OEMs for comprehensive application and hardware support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. Here are just some of the vendors supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Alias | Wavefront BEA BMC Software Borland Checkpoint Computer Associates Dell HP IBM: Tivoli, Lotus, DB2, Websphere Legato Novell Oracle Rogue Wave Software SAP Softimage Sun Synopsys Tibco VERITAS _________________________________ Keep looking up, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: <nate at refried.org> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: [TCLUG] IBM and Redhat (and SuSE and Novell) > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:36:17AM -0600, Tim Sinks wrote: > > everything. That makes it easy to sell with just 3 types, but Big Blue must > > have swung thier weight around in this decision. The rumor a while back was > > that Big Blue was going to absorb RH. > > That may have been the rumor, but there was little chance of it being > true. The other "rumors" were that IBM was propping SuSE up so it > wouldn't go bankrupt. I think the majority of big IBM wins were using > SuSE and not Redhat. > > It gets more interesting now that Novell is in the process of buying > SuSE. Novell still has a lot of money and it doesn't appear that they > are bleeding cash. Will IBM continue paying for SuSE's development > costs? Can Novell make SuSE profitable in their own right? > > Nate > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list