> > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: b...@iguanasuicide.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop >Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:48:36 -0600 > >>On Monday 28 February 2011 13:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote: >>> For those of you who have helped a company or organization migrate >from >>> Windows to Linux or from one Linux distro to another, what is your >>> preference? >> >>The only time I've been involved in such a project it was from a >hetrogenous >>AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy) environment to a hetrogenous >AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy)/SLES >>environment. >> >>I would have recommended Debian instead, but I wasn't consulted. >SLES allows >>them to mostly operate in the same manner, as they were previously, >though. A >>shift to Debian would have required them to take a more active role >in OS >>issue diagnosis and remediation, but they have sufficient technical >staff to >>do so. >>-- >>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. >>b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) >>ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' >>http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ >> Another consideration. Many enterprise companies are orgainzed such that the IT (or equivalent) area reports in to the CFO who is a businessman first and a technologist second. Such individuals often come from IBM-like backgrounds with installation fees, maintenance agreements and such. For these people distributions like RHE "feel comfortable". Larry
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