[CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)
Jim Wildman
jim at rossberry.com
Sun Nov 30 21:56:26 UTC 2008
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, John R Pierce wrote:
> Alexander Farber wrote:
>> You don't know our situation and already have an opinion.
>>
>> We already spent 400000 Euro for SW licenses this year
>> (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business,
>> so I can understand that management tries to save some money.
>>
>
>
> do you understand that if there is ANY issue which could be an OS related
> problem that even possibly could be caused by mixing builds of RPMs, SAP will
> not support you, and that e400K investment will be near worthless?
Actually it is trending towards worthless as soon as SAP says "please
update package X to the latest version from Red Hat" and you can't do it.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com
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