[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

Sun Mar 20 18:34:51 UTC 2011
Александр Кириллов <nevis2us at infoline.su>

>>> CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is
>>> owed.  If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are
>>> wanted or needed, PLEASE buy a contract from someone
>>>
>>> TANSTAAFL
>>
>> And yes I started looking elsewhere and with reasonably priced offer  
>> from
>> Oracle
>> this project is probably dead in the water.
> 
> Hi AK,
> 
> Why would you swing so radically in the other direction from free to  
> fee?
> 
> Have you looked at SL?  They don't have 5.6 but seem to be on a stable  
> 6.0 rel.

Hi,

I'm not actually looking for free.
I'd gladly support the efforts of our "prominent North American Enterprise
Linux vendor"
with what little I have if their offers wouldn't be so ridiculously
expensive.
I hope the situation may change now with Oracle in direct competition with
RH
for RH and RH-based distros user base. BTW Oracle offers installable
binaries for free.
I didn't get into details yet but this sounds like a viable alternative.

AK