[Lias] Red Hat substitutes

[Roger Buck]

Hi Andrew - Long time no contact :)

Andrew Dorrell wrote:
> I am surprised that SuSE has not appeared in this discussion.
[--snip--]

Roger Buck wrote:
>> The only reason for the "RedHattedness" is the need to support some 
>> third part products (currently only available for installation on RH 
>> distros).

The reasons for including OSXS and FreeBSD (although only "lastly"), is 
that AFAIK, some of those RedHat based third party products (including 
but not limited to Filemaker and Oracle) are/were also certified for 
those platforms... so maybe I should add SuSE to the list?

The reason for SuSE omission: I think SuSE may also be certified for 
some of these products (though not "all"), ... and only if you purchase 
the SuSE "Enterprise Server" version?... which brings us back to the 
start of this thread ;^)

Solely because of reasons mentioned in quoted snippet above, we _may_ 
still have no option but to install a Redhat based distro for some of 
our clients? These are the same reasons that are still compelling many 
to support MSWindows (both on the desktop and server).

We _are_ still looking, but there's just not enough hours in the day to 
become sufficiently proficient to reasonably evaluate every alternative 
distro.

In summary: We're still open to persuasive arguments, but Honourable 
providers must always be prepared to eat the dog food they provide... 
despite undoubtedly preferring an alternative when dining alone <grin>

R.