[CentOS] CentOS for commercial use

Mark A. Lewis mark at siliconjunkie.net
Tue Apr 5 12:50:45 UTC 2005


> > For you boss it may be a question of scale & risk 
> management. Spending 
> > money on RH means never having to explain why she thought 
> 'some kid in 
> > a basement could support our business' in an outage review.
> > 
> 
> Yep, most of the responses I've gotten support the conclusion(s):
> 
> 1. A support contract is good for CYA (and perhaps not 
> more?). If it feels good, do it. Most ingrained business risk 
> analysis types do not understand community support in the 
> first place. Having a contract in place gives them a (not 
> necessarily justified) warm fuzzy.
It's accountablity. The case where I work is that management wants
someone to point a finger at if something doesn't go right.

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