Thread: Enterprise Wide Deployment
Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we can negotiate the support pricing down? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Enterprise-Wide-Deployment-tf4265690.html#a12139899 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why > among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we > can negotiate the support pricing down? It's more about your skill set and familiarity than whether any one of those will work well enough. If you're considering Ubuntu, you should be looking at debian, the parent distro for ubuntu. The server version of debian is very stable and reliable. As for cost, Debian and Ubuntu are free, and RedHat is available for free as either Centos or White Box, with slightly delayed updates. I lean towards RHEL because that's what I know. No matter what you pick, you need to test it with your setup of course.
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why
>> among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we
>> can negotiate the support pricing down?
I would suggest the following:
If you have real in house expertise:
CentOS or Debian
If you do not:
Redhat or Ubuntu Dapper.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why >>> among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we >>> can negotiate the support pricing down? > > I would suggest the following: > > If you have real in house expertise: > > CentOS or Debian You can get support from HP for Debian AFAIK. -Doug
On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you > suggest and why among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and > Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we can negotiate the > support pricing down? For all it's worth: my personal experiences with RH support were shocking, to say the least, and I can't fathom why anyone would want to pay for it. If you have in-house linux expertise, choose whatever they're familiar with. If you don't - find a local company that can give you support and use what they're familiar with. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Andrej
Scott Marlowe wrote: > On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why >> among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we >> can negotiate the support pricing down? > > It's more about your skill set and familiarity than whether any one of > those will work well enough. One more consideration - consider using one of the distros supported by your hardware vendor for your model server. There's nothing more frustrating than having hardware tech support point fingers at a software vendor and software tech support point fingers at the hardware vendor. HP supports Debian, Red Hat, and Novell, at least on servers. I'm not sure what they'd do if you call them about Ubuntu or CentOS.
On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: > On 8/14/07, john_sm <john_smith3853@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you >> suggest and why among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and >> Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we can negotiate the >> support pricing down? > For all it's worth: my personal experiences with RH support > were shocking, to say the least, and I can't fathom why > anyone would want to pay for it. > > If you have in-house linux expertise, choose whatever they're > familiar with. If you don't - find a local company that can give > you support and use what they're familiar with. Just my 2 cents. While you're looking at support; I strongly recommend looking at getting a support contract for PostgreSQL as well if you're going to be banking your business on it. While it's pretty rare to run into problems in production (depending on the knowledge of your staff and the quality of your hardware), it can happen. (Disclosure: I work for one company that provides PostgreSQL support) -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel@decibel.org EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)