RHEL vs SLES?

[quietas]

RHEL and CentOS would work as well. The pricing is roughly the same between the two.

[Klug]

Originally Posted by quietas

RHEL and CentOS would work as well. The pricing is roughly the same between the two.

RHEL and SLES...
CentOS is "free" and not supported.

[Baylink]

I believe that the thrust of Quietas' post was "RHEL/Centos will work as well as SUSE".

Though I could be wrong.

[quietas]

Baylink is right. I wrote the sentance poorly. I meant to say a RHEL with NE and CentOS with FOSS would be similar pricing to a SLES/OpenSuse. Retail price is about $300 more for RHEL so it's a drop in the bucket when compared to better support and testing.

I guess the next question would be about the best options I have seen for archiving old users. Would a NE install on RHEL play nice with a FOSS install on CentOS for use as an archival backup for old users and off system storage?

[LMStone]

FWIW we prefer SLES. YaST takes some getting used to I agree, and SuSE has its quirks, but we have had good success using SLES to host a variety of apps, including Zimbra. We have also had good success with RHEL too.

It's clear from at least one of the bugs that Zimbra do not test as much on SLES as they do on RHEL; the log rotation bug on SLES 10 was particularly annoying because if a test SLES box had been kept up overnight the bug would have manifested itself straightaway.

But considering that Zimbra brings all its own pre-configured apps (Postfix, MySQL, Amavis, etc.) to the table, the OS plays a much more minor role with Zimbra than with other apps.

Hope that helps,
Mark