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Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-pieces-do-corporations-drool-over dept.

phenix asks: "With the new release of Novell Linux Desktop, and the upcoming release of Sun JDS3, I am curious to hear how these two suites, and their underlying enterprise infrastructures (JES and OES) compare. Specifically, I am interested in their ease of management/deployment in these areas: directory services, productivity (office) applications, centralized application serving, centralized document storage, groupware, and remote application installation. All of these, of course, without the use of Windows products like Exchange and Windows technologies like Active Directory. Is there a better alternative?"

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  1. Red Hat? by phenix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're all just mad because i didn't mention Red Hat.

    Seriously though, the question really has nothing to do with the distribution, I'm concerned primarily with the infrastructure provided by Novell and Sun to support and implement the distribution.

    I'd love to test these myself (and will), but nothing is more informative than real-world users who have done a real-world implementation; I'd be very surprised to hear that there are no /... readers who have tested these yet; meanwhile, please comment on these companies past performance with their products (JES, SuSE Enterprise, Red Carpet).

    I'm not looking for Windows clones, or Windows compatibles, and am rather disturbed that both Novell and Sun seem to be touting their "Exchange connectors" as one of their key features.

  2. Re:How about YOU test it & get back to us? by kneecarrot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Current users of OSS are constantly bemoaning the lack of wide adoption but also have their personal identity and self-esteem heavily reliant on the elitism associated with the communities surrounding OSS. The natural urge is to bar membership to this community to perpetuate the elitism, greatly harming new user adoption.

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  3. Re:Best Distro for Enterprise: Roll Your Own. by jedidiah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can think of one big reason not to do this: Oracle.

    Some enterprise applications have very rigorous support and compatibility matrices. Unless your idea of running Unix servers is just playing around with apache, you will likely have some serious support considerations.

    In this case, RH and Suse enterprise are the only options if you happen to be in the US or Europe.

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