Ganesh Gajare wrote:
Hello all,
I don't understand in which direction you all ppl are talking.
Linux gives all you want.
Linux gives all you want but what about what the customer wants?
For vendors, as krishnakant says.. he required business, MS gives that to him and that's why they go for it.
There are h/w vendor tell us that sorry, our high end servers will not support debian and GN/Linux, they are supported for RH, Suse. But we had tested that server run smoothly even with virtulization on Debian.
I don't blame the vendor as he has his own limitations and will not risk himself into unknown territory. A vendor provides support for what he knows not what he does not know. Though this is not the reason to not learn more but at that point of time with the limitations of his knowledge, support will be limited to that. Another problem providing support is that after the customer has installed Linux on his computer and starts using it, he later brings up peripheral devices that may be sometimes be quite difficult to install or run optimally in Linux. It is not worth spending so much time and effort to install individual devices on different machines. It holds up all other work.
Vendors, don't know what linux has, and there are only 2-3 h/w guy supports linux .
We are supposed to give support for the rest of the thing. Guide people for buying dead machines and make them alive putting GNU/Linux, rather than talking with Vendors, bcos Manufacturers design is itself linux supported. Problem arise at very high level application which made for only high end server, one can get more details at that stage.
Hmm. You are only referring to the server segment. OK.