What does Zimbra have against OpenSUSE

[greenrenault]

Originally Posted by LMStone

Assuming SLES11 goes GA sometime next Spring, any new Zimbra boxes we build at that time I would prefer to host on SLES11 rather than SLES10, since enterprise mail servers typically have five-year (or longer) life spans.

Dropping support for OpenSUSE when you support Fedora; being silent on your planned support for SLES11, and supporting only one version of SLES on GunsNRoses when you support two versions of RHEL at least to me gives the impression--unintended or not--that Zimbra's support of SLES is just not on par with that of RHEL.

*Applaud* I couldn't agree more.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 was released in July 2006. Zimbra supported SLES 10 with ZCS 5, January 2008. 18 months after release date?

Are we going to see the same thing with SLES11? Honestly I expect this will be the case. But why?

Let's compare with Ubuntu. Ubuntu 8.04 released April 2008. Supported in August 2008, 4 months later.

Is it because SLES is a Novell product and Novell also have a competing groupware platform? (Groupwise).

Please start supporting SLES 11 within at least 6 months of the release date.

[greenrenault]

Fedora releases typically have a 6 month development cycle. And IMHO no one in their right mind would be using this distro in any production server environment.

So why continue supporting Fedora? Seriously Zimbra, save some time & money and drop it.