Sorin Srbu wrote:
p.s. let me make it clear why i'm being so obnoxious at the moment about this. a local company currently supports their software suite on linux on suse only. they're getting more call for RH support. i'd like to suggest they consider centos because i might get some support business out of it. as part of their consideration, they will undoubtedly go to centos.org and poke around, and i want them to be happy with what they read there, and not be scared off. and maybe, out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll donate to centos because they like it so *everybody* wins.
With that said, any commercial company needing a linux OS with paid support and that likes CentOS, should go for RHEL as a first choice; CentOS is after all a clone of RHEL.
On another track, CentOS is a very mature enterprise OS and puts other similar distros to shame IMO. Overall, this is as good as it gets. Like it or not.
And there is always the issue that if Red Hat sees Centos as competition in the supported OS business, they will make the cloning and updates more difficult.
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
Sorin Srbu wrote:
p.s. let me make it clear why i'm being so obnoxious at the moment about this. a local company currently supports their software suite on linux on suse only. they're getting more call for RH support. i'd like to suggest they consider centos because i might get some support business out of it. as part of their consideration, they will undoubtedly go to centos.org and poke around, and i want them to be happy with what they read there, and not be scared off. and maybe, out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll donate to centos because they like it so *everybody* wins.
With that said, any commercial company needing a linux OS with paid support and that likes CentOS, should go for RHEL as a first choice; CentOS is after all a clone of RHEL.
On another track, CentOS is a very mature enterprise OS and puts other similar distros to shame IMO. Overall, this is as good as it gets. Like it or not.
And there is always the issue that if Red Hat sees Centos as competition in the supported OS business, they will make the cloning and updates more difficult.
yes, that's a good point, politically speaking and, yes, i do understand the value of politics. to be more accurate, it's not the local company that would be getting into centos, so much as the clients that run their software, so this would be a per-client decision.
i'm guessing that most of them would opt for the safety and support of RHEL, but perhaps a few of the smaller ones would be happy with centos. as a guess, i'd suspect that what would happen would be a nice gain for red hat, with a much smaller additional win for centos -- small enough that it probably wouldn't even show up on RH's radar. but, again, i'm just guessing.
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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
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Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really
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And there is always the issue that if Red Hat sees Centos as competition in
the
supported OS business, they will make the cloning and updates more
difficult.
I personally ignore that risk for now. 8-)
Has there been an indication they might do so lately?
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