[CentOS] CentOS for commercial use

[Chris Mauritz]

Peter Farrow wrote:

> I used RH9 on all my commercial servers previously to Centos, and I 
> bought paid copies for each even though I could have just downloaded 
> it because I wanted to support the cause.  However Red Hat then dumped 
> me high and dry with no further release after RH9 leaving me a huge 
> bill to upgrade to RHEL for each machine, for support that I had never 
> used in the past anyway....so Centos was a perfect choice....
>
> So I don't see myself as leach moreover I see my self as an astute 
> business man not paying for something I don't need.  I have 
> contributed to the community and will help with any question posed 
> that I feel I can answer adequately.    This is far more valuable than 
> paying some commercial organisation driven by share holders selling me 
> something I don't want or need...
>
> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>

I fall into this category as well.  My company purchased RH licenses and 
support for versions 4.2-9.0 and then I felt we were held hostage to 
upgrade to RHEL when RH EOL'ed the regular releases.  In all that time, 
I don't think I EVER called RH or used their official support mechanisms 
since it was just easier/faster to tap the usual community sources.  But 
I felt like we needed the "official support" in case we got bitten in 
the ass by a problem unsolvable by the community support structure.  
That never happened.  So when the choice of completely switching distros 
or going to an offshoot like CentOS was before me, I decided that I 
didn't want to re-learn where everything resides on another distro.  
Switching over to something in beta like Fedora just wasn't an option.  
I tried whitebox and then CentOS.  Ultimately, I decided that CentOS was 
a better fit for our organisation.  And I haven't looked back.  I've 
been very happy with the CentOS distro and the level of support 
available.  I plan on sending them a fat "thank you" check in the near 
future.

Best regards,

C

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