Look at the link (evidence) that I gave above about her “planting” anti-Linux stories for Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw#Media_controversy

I would not characterise her as a neutral or ethical journalist.

Sounds more like you haven’t liked what she’s stated in the past (her research contradicts your lack of research, perhaps?) and so you’ve unfairly labeled her as a shill.

Costs is a fair argument to migrate to a new solution in general. Tough NetWare/OES does provide some services that (in this case) RHEL does not provice and which they clearly do not need anymore.

“With Netware, the company reportedly faced obstacles, including the limitations of client licenses. It was also challenged by complex and expensive maintenance that limited its agility.”

I can image that; NetWare 3.12 does only provide a good IPX stack to get access to NetWare services. Client license are indeed a problem, they were not able to buy them for several years now with the product EOL for quite some time.. It’s like trying to maintain Windows 3.11 or an early Linux disto on current hardware.

“The company’s CIO said, “In addition to high availability and reliability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gives us access to features such as clustering and integrated virtualization that would otherwise have only been possible through the purchase of additional third-party solutions.””

I believe these solutions are also out of the box available with SLES.

Red Hat Thumbs its Nose at Novell

The Indian Express Group, one of subcontinent’s better known media firms, says it’s migrated from Novell Netware 3.12 operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to scale while keeping costs in line.

Did I say you did?

it was a shrewd attempt to put words in my mouth.

I wish I could find a real article/report about it, but all I can find junk derivatives of the press release, such as this one from yesterday (17th):

Red Hat has recently announced that The Indian Express Group has migrated to the company’s Enterprise Linux 5. The deployment aims to help the media group reduce its IT infrastructure costs, while maintaining high availability, reliability, security and transparency.

Deploying onto the media house’s backbone LAN servers, which were originally incurring complex and expensive maintenance, the group was facing a challenge of adapting to consumer and technological demands at reduced costs while simultaneously scaling its critical IT infrastructure. It implemented SAP on Enterprise Linux 5 with an aim to streamline business processes, enable easier management of its systems and achieve information transparency across its many locations around the country.

“To create a solution for a company that cannot afford downtime was a challenge; however Red Hat has been successful in implementing a seamless migration for the Indian Express Group. The solutions have not only proved to be highly functional but also cost effective,” said Vikas Pradhan, Director Sales, Red Hat.

Look carefully and you’ll see it’s a shadow of the press release.

Did I say that?

Did I say you did?

Note: this comment was posted from Novell’s headquarters.

Apparently I was a year off in my remembering although it doesn’t hurt my argument.

Note: this comment was posted from Novell’s headquarters.

Are you going to tell us that the reason was because of the MS-Novell deal, now?

Did I say that?

That means they’ve been no one’s customers since 1999, almost 10 years now.

Novell weren’t “dumped” in favor of Red Hat, Red Hat simply picked up a customer who was stranded.

Note: this comment was posted from Novell’s headquarters.

Afterall, it’s clear that they stopped being Novell customers at least 4 years before the MS-Novell deal. NetWare 3.12 was released in fall of 1998, so they may have stopped being Novell customers 10 years ago for all we know.

Note: this comment was posted from Novell’s headquarters.

Year 2000 Updates. The coming of the year 2000 will present serious challenges for those whose systems are unprepared to deal with it. Novell has expended considerable effort in testing its core server files, utilities, and client software to ensure that they will correctly perform date transitions in the year 2000 and beyond. During this testing, it was discovered that NetWare 3.12 requires updates to several server and client software files in order to function properly in the year 2000 and beyond. NetWare 3.2 contains all of these Year 2000 updates for both the server and the client software.

So this company wasn’t even running server software that was y2k compliant. Nice.

Oh, and excuse me, but just to be clear, all of the 3.x series of NetWare were EOL’d in 2002. Not just 3.12

Note: this comment was posted from Novell’s headquarters.

I mean, it’s interesting in isolation, and moving from a proprietary platform like Netware to a Free OS is a good thing… but weren’t you bitching about this exact same thing a few days ago?