On 04/28/2015 02:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 4/28/2015 9:49 AM, bobby Orellano wrote:
nowhere does it say that centos is approved for use in DoD. it is not on the APL, only RedHat and SuSE
DoD approval requires spending lots of money jumping through arbitrary hoops. Do you wish to pay for this?
skimming the requirements, it also requires extensive documentation of said 'Product'. Do you wish to write this?
CentOS is not approved for DOD use. In fact, CentOS is not now, nor has it ever been *certified* for anything. Certifications require people to PAY to certify a product.
Specifically, EAL4 Certification, a requirement for the DOD, costs up to 2.5 million dollars .. see this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level#Impact_on_cost_and_s...
That cost would be for each main version of CentOS (2.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) .. so the cost to have all 6 previous major versions certified would be:
6 x $2.5 Million = $15 Million dollars.
Since CentOS is given away for free ... I can't afford to pay 15 million dollars to have it EAL4 certified .. can anyone on this list?
Certifications and security testing and assurance, along with a Service Level Agreement for fixing bugs is why people who require any of those things need to buy RHEL.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes