Re: amd64 recommendation?

>On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 15:42 -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
>
>     <snip>
>>  Steve,
>>
>>  I know what you mean.
>>
>>  After Novell took over, it was not obvious to me which web site to
>>  use; but somehow I found the downloads for both the eval dvd and a
>>  live cd of SUSE 9.2
>>
>>  If anyone wants a copy, let me know.
>>
>>  Rodney
>>
>
>We're pretty serious about SLES at work and at the time of the merger we
>were on Red Hat (it was a lot cheaper for Red Hat support back then). I
>went to an IBM/Novell dog and pony at the Benson in Portland right after
>the ink dried on the Novell buy and they cashed that mondo IBM stock
>check. It was interesting to see how many CNE types grilled the
>presenters about closing the SuSE source, and other open projects, and
>Novell (Mike Elerbe and the likes) swore that wouldn't happen. It turns
>out they are true to their word on this one - whew. Anyway, when that
>dust cloud settled our cost for support for SLES went down about 30%
>from the old Red Hat cost and it dropped to about 25% of what
>Mainline/SuSE wanted originally for support on SLES.

Glad to hear about your good news. I guess bad news for any CNE; got 
to feel that their livelihood is being threatened.


>I also have evals of the new OES (Open Enterprise Server) and SLES9 -
>along with a whole host of Novell product DVD's if anyone is interested.

If anything you have is more recent than the 9.2 that I downloaded, 
I'd like copy.


thanks,

>Rodney

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