Conversion to Linux

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 17:39:29 CDT 2008


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jeffrey Watts
<jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> With that large of a setup I honestly think you ought to not look at Ubuntu
> and instead look at Red Hat or SuSE.  Ubuntu has good community support and
> offers some commercial support, but they are on another planet compared to
> Red Hat and SuSE.  For the x86 world, Red Hat is probably the best
> supported, and Red Hat has the largest network of support engineers and
> cooperating vendors.
>
> For example, Red Hat is soon about to fully support Exchange 2007.  Fedora
> 10 is featuring Samba 4 and _native_ Exchange 2007 MAPI support.  _Native_,
> no OWA hacks or other such, so Evolution will work out of the box.  If
> you're in an Exchange 2007 environment this will make a migration much
> easier for you, as you can deploy the workstations while keeping your
> mailserver, doing that final migration last.
>

In all fairness, Redhat hasn't announced RHEL6 yet. RHEL 5.3 was just
announced however, but that isn't going to be based of Fedora 10+

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