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