On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:25 -0600, Paul wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Kunal Shah wrote: > > For Microsoft, they have policy, if it's the problem of Microsoft, they wont > > charge you. If its problem of your application, they will charge you > > heavily. > > Hmmm well I've never been able to get MS to support issues I've had with > W2K, they have always pointed their finger at a 3rd party driver or tool > and I've had to chase the problem with them. > > Of course we have never had anything other than what Joe random gets > when they buy Windows retail for support. > > > > > As I said, we could never go in production with Linux. > > Sure you can ... plenty of financial companies are using Linux in > production to run their applications ... they are just using a > commercial version. Talk to IBM if you really want hand holding as > they are more than willing to walk you though the migration and provide > support (or Novell for that matter). > > Paul > And in fact IBM provides Linux as one of the supported OSes on many of the new Power5 servers and supporting hardware. Commercial versions are available and doing well.
