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Some software vendors - e.g. major engineering applications - only support their products on RHEL.
by B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago
Some software vendors - e.g. major engineering applications - only support their products on RHEL.
- terlisimo 3y agoYep. A ton of proprietary software (like anything from IBM) supports only RHEL or SLES. If you open a support ticket and say "Hi I'm using Debian/Arch/Nix" they will just laugh and close the ticket.
- mekster 3y agoHow about Ubuntu?
- natebc 3y agoFor big enterprise software I'm around no Ubuntu is supported. SAP: https://community.sap.com/topics/linux/supported-platforms https://community.sap.com/topics/linux/supported-platforms PeopleSoft/Oracle RDBMS: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/ladbi/operating-system-requirements-for-x86-64-linux-platforms.html#GUID-3F647617-7FF5-4EE4-BBA8-9A5E3EEC888F https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
- ZeroSolstice 3y agoRight, but I think the OP's question is why are you using RHEL compat instead of just getting licensed RHEL. In your example a company is already fine with paying full price for major engineering applications why wouldn't you do the same for your underlying OS.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoI've seen it done, although small-scale, many years ago. But yielding that point would mean that RH/IBM would have you over a barrel on pricing. Probably why Suse is forcing the issue. P.S. and Oracle is piling on ...