Free vs. pay versions

[richb-RBmg6HWzfGThzJAekONQAQ at public.gmane.org (Rich Braun)]

Edward Ned Harvey pointed out:
> I'm not sure if there was any question in that message, but ...
>
> On stability of Centos/RHEL versus fedora, etc ... The main difference is
> ... Fedora is where experimental bleeding-edge changes take place.  Those
> things don't get into RHEL until they're older and more mature.  Take BTRFS
> for a perfect example.  Present in Ubuntu/Fedora.  Not present in RHEL yet.

Novell's pay version is SLES.  I find that OpenSuSE tends to be QA-verified
just as well as RHEL (at least in major versions which come out every 9-12
months).  But it's got a whole lot more current packages included in it.

So I will pose this question:  does anyone here use SLES?  What makes you opt
to pay for it rather than use the open version?

As for "support".  I've never wanted it for an O/S, though indeed my career
started with a support job at one of the big O/S vendors.  Just my bias, I
guess.  The type of support I want comes from archives at opensuse.org,
packman, rpmfind, etc.  And sometimes this email list.  ;-)

-rich