IF your decision makers deciding whether to keep up to date with commercial license renewal at this time, they may benefit from trying openSUSE 11.4 as server..
BTW myself am NON-technical ;-)
From :
http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights
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The perfect web stack
With the combination of the latest version of the three main web servers, six popular web scripting languages and all the best database engines, setting up a web stack was never so easy.
Fire up YaST, and with a few mouse clicks you configure your web server, add or remove needed modules, set up up your virtual hosts or configure ssl/tls connections. Hit apply and start serving dynamic or static content from your system!
Webserver improvements
openSUSE is an excellent platform for web servers as long as you can work with the fast update cycle compared to enterprise distributions like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
openSUSE 11.4 ships with the latest Apache2 2.2.17 which offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. There have been improvements to the mod_authn_alias for authentication and authorization and the caching modules mod_cache, mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache are now considered production quality. A graceful-stop signal has been introduced which can stop httpd in a graceful way, regardless of the status of any requests being served. In the proxy area there is a new mod_proxy_balancer module and the mod_proxy_ajp module adds support for the Apache JServ Protocol version 1.3. The Regular Expression Library is updated to 5.0, httpd now supports files larger than 2GB on openSUSE (including larger-than-2GB requests) and mod_dbd, together with the apr_dbd framework, brings direct SQL support to modules that need it.
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