Re: [opensuse] To Novell SUSE - Please include Windows Media Codecs after deal with Microsoft

JJ Gitties wrote:

You are such a door knob.

Lets establish something. Germany is SUSE country. North America is
Microsoft country. I would say that North America is Novell country as
well if they have NetWare -- but thats gone. I don't know where you are
based, but where I am based, which is a major metropolitan area in NA, I
have not met a single living soul where they run SUSE enterprise server.
The only people I know who run it are the companies I read about in
Novell Connection magazine. And me. I ran the beta in my home network
for a while.

I just know of people that run MS, Solaris, Red Hat and a bit of
NetWare. What that tells you is that in general, Novell have not really
make much market penetration. You would think that at least some on the
ex-NetWare shops would have said yay to SLES.

Thank you for your opinion. Opinions, however, are no substitute for
actual facts. Let's face it, by your own admission, you're a windoze
specialist, who occasionally tinkers with linux.

I have been a full-time unix admin for over 12 years. I work for a
fortune 100 company, and I've done consulting with small and medium
businesses on the side for over 10 years.

I introduced linux to this company back in the 1990s, as I set up
slackware, then redhat boxes, as secondary mail/dns, and also introduced
the big brother monitoring system on linux. Eventually linux took over
as primary and secondary smtp and dns servers, as well as taking on ftp
and time services. For years we used redhat, but migrated everything
over to Novell/SuSE in 2004, while also migrating more infrastructure
from hpux and solaris over to Novell SLES. The change has been good,
with increased uptime and availability of services.

Every one of the businesses that I consult for has uses suse servers -
among them a major auto manufacturer, a shipping firm, banks and finance
companies and web consultants, and I'm happy to report that I'm simply
not seeing anything like the gloomy picture you paint.

One finance company started out with just a linux smtp gateway for their
windoze shop, but have since added linux dns servers, web proxy,
firewall, vpn server, and have migrated their websites from
microsoft/iis to linux/apache/j2ee. They were originally on red hat but
have moved to suse.

Hope this clears things up -

Joe



Joe

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