Just curiously, which support vendor do you guys use for Linux OS?



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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:58 AM
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As compared to Windows or Unix?  In the Unix app environments I'm
running we see several opportunities for cost savings just on the
hardware alone.  The support is significantly cheaper as well.  On the
flip side there ARE things (large DBs for example) that we aren't going
to move to Linux any time soon because at scale its complexity is worse
than the RISC based systems AND a lot of what we want to run isn't
supported on Linux at such scales in any event.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:53 PM
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Interesting, since every vendor I've spoken to who manages any kind of
costing group for customers has had to work REALLY hard to justify the
costing for using Linux in the enterprise....


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:49 PM
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There IS dollar savings even if you go the commercial Linux variants and
pay for support as compared to commercial Unix (especially the RISC
based solutions).

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
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Honestly though, that smacks of management thinking Linux is free (as in
beer) rather than free (as in speech.)

Any question like that coming from mgmt is usually related to percieved
dollar savings.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Greenberg, Katherine A
> Sent: May 10, 2006 1:28 PM
> To: Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
> 
> 
> I don't honestly know of a single company these days that
> isn't looking
> at Linux for one reason or another...
> 
> Unless you aren't. And then I'll know of one :)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dhotre, 
> Shekhar
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:23 PM
> To: Scott Jacobson; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
> 
> 
> >>I've been asked by my management why we're not using Linux for
> NetBackup
> 
> 
> Any particular reason -your management is interested in Linux ?

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