[HPADM] OT: Thoughts on Linux, Future? or not?

From: Ayson, Alison {Info~Palo Alto} (alison.ayson_at_ROCHE.COM)
Date: 07/17/04

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    Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:04:47 -0700
To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl

    I haven't posted in awhile so I hope "OT" is still the right symbol for
    "Off Topic"

    I've been an HP-UX administrator for over 10 years (some Solaris and SGI
    too, but mostly HP-UX). Lately there has been a big push within our
    company to look at Linux, specifically RedHat (AS 3.0 and 2.1). It
    seems that everyone wants to jump on the Linux bandwagon, but I'm not
    convinced Linux is the all-encompassing solution that so many seem to
    think it is.

    The biggest motivation for moving to Linux is financial (from the
    "higher ups" that is). The hardware is cheaper and so is the OS.
    However, it's been my experience--so far at least--that what you save in
    hardware and software you quickly use up in Sys Admin time. I have
    spent so many hours trying to get a particular driver to load, or a
    piece of "freeware" software to compile; something that would have taken
    minutes on an HP-UX server. And support from RedHat is a joke! The
    quickest response I've gotten so far to a reported problem was 72 hours
    (usually it's 2 weeks, one question has been pending for 3 months no
    with no response). Luckily we bought 1 year of support from HP for one
    of our Linux servers; I can get an answer from HP fairly quickly. So far
    we have very few Linux servers so I haven't gotten overwhelmed----yet.
    However if I had 20 or so linux servers to maintain, and everytime I had
    to make some sort of change to that server I had to spend hours
    recompiling the kernel or whatever...the situation could quickly become
    a nightmare.

    I wondered what some of the other HP Sys Admins out there think about
    Linux? Have your experiences been positive or have you experienced some
    of the same difficulties.

    Thanks for any feedback.

      -- Alison Ayson
         Roche Bioscience
         Palo Alto, CA 

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