Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro?

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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I'm with the others

[bogie]

Do your own research and then get back to us. Download the eval versions and test them. Or were you planning on implementing an "Enterprise Solution" based on the whims of the /. readership? Giving you the slightest benefit of the doubt there are many other less public, more informed forums for this type of question. Why ask at /. where most of the users A) don't use linux anymore and b) are desktop users?

I though "which distro is best" discussions were banned by now?