On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:53:46AM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: > On 11/17/06, Igor TAmara <igor@tamarapatino.org> wrote: > >Hi, > >Marvin> Hello all, > >Marvin> > >Marvin> I'm not creating a flame war here but I just want to get > >suggestions > >Marvin> especially from those who administers enterprise production > >servers. I > >Marvin> am still confused on what to use in the future. Can you list some > >pros > >Marvin> and cons on using either of the two distributions? Let's base the > >Marvin> comparison between the Dapper Drake LTS and probably the next > >stable > >Marvin> release for Debian which is Etch. Also, I am more particular with > >an > >Marvin> AMD64 architecture. > >Marvin> > > > >If the enterprises you are working for are willing to pay for extra > >support or Ubuntu want to get money on bussiness like RedHat did in the > >past or maybe someday there is a trade between Microsoft and Ubuntu to > >make people pay royalties like is happening now with Suse(Novell), > >or even Ubuntu could be bought by Microsoft as happened in the past with > >Caldera(SCO), you'll stick with Ubuntu, if you want the servers remain > >free, Debian would be the way. > > I don't see the worlds first space tourist selling out to Microsoft > anytime soon. > > Really the decision on this comes down to what is truly important, > server uptime which means more productivity. Everyone knows what > Debian stability is, has anyone experienced this sort of stability > from Ubuntu in any of their distributions, because I haven't. > > If you want a rock solid server _without_ the annoyances of what is > essentially a testing distribution on your server, Debian is the way > to go. If you want the psychological umbrella of corporate support > which only means anything to the executives, then go with Ubuntu. I am a debian lover as well. But I think it always comes down to horses for courses. Some companies want to know they can knock on somebody else's door if something goes wrong. You get that with Redhat and Suse (and ubuntu ? not sure about their support contract). If I as admining at a place i would recommend debian, very stable, alot of telco equipment/systems are built on debian. But as a manager, I got to ask myself where am I going to be able to get support when the current admin leaves or when I want to expand, or if I have a problem that the current admin can't handle! Plus with the proper change management dev -> testing -> production, you should not see any major problems in production, especially if you have done thorough testing. So i think in a medium -> large -> enterprise business the choices is really redhat or suse. For small or very specialised organisations the choice is much broader > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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