Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @05:52AM
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Some software vendors - e.g. major engineering applications - only support their products on RHEL.
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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by terlisimo on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:02AM
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Yep. A ton of proprietary software (like anything from IBM) supports only RHEL or SLES.
If you open a support ticket and say "Hi I'm using Debian/Arch/Nix" they will just laugh and close the ticket.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by mekster on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:00AM
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How about Ubuntu?
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by natebc on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:46AM
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For big enterprise software I'm around no Ubuntu is supported.
SAP: https://community.sap.com/topics/linux/supported-platforms
PeopleSoft/Oracle RDBMS: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by ZeroSolstice on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:16PM
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Right, but I think the OP's question is why are you using RHEL compat instead of just getting licensed RHEL. In your example a company is already fine with paying full price for major engineering applications why wouldn't you do the same for your underlying OS.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:26PM
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I've seen it done, although small-scale, many years ago.
But yielding that point would mean that RH/IBM would have you over a barrel on pricing. Probably why Suse is forcing the issue.
P.S. and Oracle is piling on ...