Comments on: Novell hurts itself with Red Hat swipe http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hurts-itself-with-red-hat-swipe/ A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ianrbruce80 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hurts-itself-with-red-hat-swipe/#comment-1648 Ianrbruce80 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:53:02 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hurts-itself-with-red-hat-swipe/#comment-1648 Thanks for the post. I want to clarify a couple of questions you raised. First, Novell based the announcement data on publicly available information for ALL commercial Linux vendors. Second, we only analyzed data for the MOST RECENT editions of products. We defined "recent editions" to be the last two commercial releases of any Linux distribution, compared against SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and 10 from Novell. We did this because most customers only care about what certified applications are supported by the the most up-to-date version of an operating system. When we compared the most recent editions of SUSE Linux Enterprise to the most recent editions of all other commercial Linux distros, we came out on top. We relied on publicly available information, the same information customers would rely on. We did our analysis carefully and made sure not to confuse counting certified vendors vs applications. We stand by our analysis. Thanks again. Ian Bruce/Novell Thanks for the post. I want to clarify a couple of questions you raised.

First, Novell based the announcement data on publicly available information for ALL commercial Linux vendors. Second, we only analyzed data for the MOST RECENT editions of products. We defined “recent editions” to be the last two commercial releases of any Linux distribution, compared against SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and 10 from Novell. We did this because most customers only care about what certified applications are supported by the the most up-to-date version of an operating system.

When we compared the most recent editions of SUSE Linux Enterprise to the most recent editions of all other commercial Linux distros, we came out on top. We relied on publicly available information, the same information customers would rely on. We did our analysis carefully and made sure not to confuse counting certified vendors vs applications. We stand by our analysis.

Thanks again.
Ian Bruce/Novell

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