<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 26 Aug 2005, at 17:58, Tethys wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yes, Debian and CentOS are fine choices for small businesses, particularly</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">those with skilled in house Linux admins. But don't pretend they're viable</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">alternatives to RHEL or SLES, because for the target market, they're not.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Agreed - in the real world we have SLES 9 running on an Opteron box doing our backup with Veritas Netbackup. The Veritas vendor wouldn't even install it if we didn't have an install listed as supported on Veritas' list. Thankfully they re-released their list the week before our install was due and added Opteron support.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Had we decided on Debian or CentOS we'd not have the backup running.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As it is we have a decent speed backup running in a fraction of the time our old Windows based backup ran.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just to prove that I'm not anti Linux :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>M@t :o)</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>