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Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course
Novell has
announced
a new migration course.
"Novell has developed a new training course to help systems administrators migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell. The course is available both as a free download and as an instructor-led class, available at locations globally."
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Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course Posted Feb 1, 2007 22:54 UTC (Thu) by kornak (guest, #17589) [Link] A Windows to Linux course would be more beneficial and productive. My 2 cents.
Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course Posted Feb 2, 2007 0:25 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] I agree, although there is probably some value in RHEL to SLES migration courses since RHEL has such a pervasive mindshare and server market share at present. A few more SLES savvy admins would be a good thing too.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 1:01 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] Will someone please explain to me: how is this not at least as odious as Mark Shuttleworth's invitation to OpenSUSE contributors to jump ship for Ubuntu? The only difference I can see is that Shuttleworth was [rightfully motivated by | taking advantage of] Novell's Microsoft deal.
Either way, cannibalizing each other's business in an ecosystem where each uses and builds on the other's code is shortsighted at best. I remember when Caldera started to do this, thinking to myself, "Oh dear, the beginning of the end for what used to be a fine distribution." Little did I know at the time how ghastly that end would be!
Not at all the same thing Posted Feb 2, 2007 6:41 UTC (Fri) by jayorke (guest, #10685) [Link] Its a course on how to do a migration and what the differences are between the two. It does not steal linux developers from one free distribution to another nor are details about the course posted by an executive in a Red Hat forum to rub people the wrong way. It is a course for administrators, not open source developers. Hopefully you can see the difference. If you work in a company which will be installing Suse but previously had Red Hat this course is of benefit.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 7:06 UTC (Fri) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717) [Link] Little competition won't hurt. And I think this one is particularly healthy.
Mark Shuttleworth's "invitation" was addressed to developers, and caused mixed reactions, while the course is addressed to admins (read: clients) and looks like casual business offer.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 11:14 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Such a course has obvious practical benefit to users/companies in such a situation. This makes it somewhat different from empty posturing.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 21:32 UTC (Fri) by huaz (guest, #10168) [Link] It's called competition.
Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course Posted Feb 2, 2007 23:17 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] I, uh, don't really see why this would require a course.
Other than learning that you replace all the Red Hat "configurator" tools with YaST, there's not a whole lot of difference. Some config files might be in slightly different places, but they're both very similar distributions. Translating between them should require a Rosetta document at most.
How about migrating from Red Hat (or SuSE) to Gentoo or Slackware? Now that's a bit more of a challenge...
Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course Posted Feb 3, 2007 2:09 UTC (Sat) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] Well maybe *you* don't see why, but I know of at least two companies who are migrating/considering migrating from RHEL to SLES and in each company there is at least one manager saying "I'd like to move forward with this migration. If only Novell had some published migration path, or a course I could send my systems folks to. Then I'd feel a little more comfortable about migrating." Novell is simply catering to those folks in hopes that they will be more forthcoming about opening their checkbooks.
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