I use SuSE professional edition for many years and am very pleased with it. Also there Online update is just great.
They run a Support Database wich is quite good as well.
I am pretty sure that these features will not go away as they are in the standard edition.
I think the Novell deal will just strengthen the enterprise support position.
SuSE looked always at RedHat and tried to do things better, ie Oracle installations in my experience were always running smoother.
(Since OACS is running great on PG I am not using Oracle anymore).
