From: L. Mark Stone (lmstone_at_rnome.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 17:47:03 CEST
Message-ID: <20060511114703.q5eh2qqk5cskko04@webmail.rnome.com> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:47:03 -0400 From: "L. Mark Stone" <lmstone@rnome.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 10 Open Beta - When?
Quoting jonlists@cbsol.com:
> How many people complaining about this officially requested the beta from
> Novell, or a Novell Partner, rather than just expecting to download an
> "open beta" from which Novell would get little or no feedback? What's the
> point of that?
>
> I noticed that betas of both SLES10 and SLED are available through our
> Partner site login a while back. Have you guys talked to your partners
> about this?
Jon,
As the original poster of this thread, let me go on record that I'm
not complaining.
To answer your question, yes, I did officially request directly
through Novell to be included in the beta. Never got a response one
way or the other.
Second, at LinuxWorld/Boston I was told by two separate individuals in
the Novell booth that there was to be an open beta for SLES 10. I see
in this thread Marcus says otherwise.
We are very happy with our existing SLES9 servers, but now we need to
deploy a few Linux virtual machines on some new servers that have the
Intel VT extensions. So, we'd like to test.
Our other choices are to buy VMware GSX, which is now at end of life
(note the EULA for the VMware server betas specifically allow only
internal testing and no commercial use), or; to put 10.1 on the
servers as the host Xen OS, and test SLES9 as the guest OS.
In the first instance, I'd like not to spend $$$ on a product that is
at end of life (VMware GSX).
In the second instance, putting 10.1 on the servers as the host OS
means we lose things like the long SLES life cycle, the LDAP Server
YaST module, and other SLES-only items on which we have come to rely.
Plus, I was also told by Novell at LinuxWorld/Boston that the
licensing for SLES10 would be by physical hardware, not by machines
(real or virtual). The Novell rep told me that having SLES10 as the
host OS and, say, three SLES10 virtual machines on a single server
would require only one SLES10 license. This is not the case for SLES9.
So, being able to test the beta of SLES10 would enable us to review
the SLES10 EULA with our own legal eyes, test the Xen functionality,
and make a business decision as to how we must price the services we
plan to offer on the hosted virtual machines.
Hope that clarifies things Jon.
With best regards,
Mark
P.S. I'd be grateful if you might try to avoid top posting in future, please.
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