>> Timo,
>> Its interesting, I am presently attending a conference in NYC and in one of the tables I saw the redhat vendor.  
>>  My first question to them was " What do you think about centos", they reply "You are using a distribution  
>>  without support and that is prompt to failure..." I don't think this is an accurate statement is it? Anyway to  
>>  make the story short, they keep telling how bad centos is for our datacenter and that I should consider  
>>  adopting redhat which is more "robust", offers "virtualization" and nearly real-time support for its customers.  
>>  I didn't go the extra mile to ask for pricing but would appreciate  your input about what they said about centos.  
>>  Lisandro
 
CentOS == RedHat.
CentOS has every bug that RedHat has.
CentOS has every bug fix that RedHat has. 
When RedHat rolls out a new version (e.g. RHEL6.0) there is a lag of a few months rolling out the CentOS release of the same version; for bug fixes the lag is a few days.
 
So, the price of RedHat is money, the price for CentOS is patience.
The product sold by RedHat is support, the product 'sold by' CentOS is self-support.
The relative value of the two arises from your ability to support your systems.
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