Well i have to agree with some other posts and ask why do you need support. Last time i check thats what the it department i there for. If you have systemadmins then there should be no need for support. SO when it comes to cutting costs for support mabet you shuld think on training ur employees properly. Or you could always hire a high school Linix geek like me:). Seriously though what is the point in having a it department if you can depend on them to fix a propblem by themselves. So again i say either hire some new techs or maybe invest in some real linux train for your current ones.
As for choosing a distro. Now this is the tuff part. MAny have suggest different distros but there are always reaasons why one or another oracle unsupported distro might not work. Thats where your new system admin training comes in. You need a distro well then make one yourself. Time for that good old LFS(linux from scratch) system with that old gcc and gblibc just for you. You could easily build in say apt or prm support if you really dont want to have to upgrade by hand. Then just take one server out since they are identical and have ur it department build all of the packages there then distrubt them across the network.Now you have a nice free distro taliored to your mneeds and some newly trained employes.Now what more could you ask for(maybe if oracle was free lol).Well i feel better now i finaly said something.
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Well i have to agree with some other posts and ask why do you need support. Last time i check thats what the it department i there for. If you have systemadmins then there should be no need for support. SO when it comes to cutting costs for support mabet you shuld think on training ur employees properly. Or you could always hire a high school Linix geek like me :). Seriously though what is the point in having a it department if you can depend on them to fix a propblem by themselves. So again i say either hire some new techs or maybe invest in some real linux train for your current ones.
As for choosing a distro. Now this is the tuff part. MAny have suggest different distros but there are always reaasons why one or another oracle unsupported distro might not work. Thats where your new system admin training comes in. You need a distro well then make one yourself. Time for that good old LFS(linux from scratch) system with that old gcc and gblibc just for you. You could easily build in say apt or prm support if you really dont want to have to upgrade by hand. Then just take one server out since they are identical and have ur it department build all of the packages there then distrubt them across the network.Now you have a nice free distro taliored to your mneeds and some newly trained employes.Now what more could you ask for(maybe if oracle was free lol).Well i feel better now i finaly said something.
Plz try not to flame me...........