On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 23:08 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:46 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > I am a new user of Centos and have started the process of becoming > > > informed as to what centos can do. Sorry to ask a simple question but > > > can you tell me where centos 4.4 compares with Red Hat Enterpres AS or > > > ES? > > > > There is no technical difference between RHEL AS and RHEL ES. The > > difference is in what Red Hat will or will not support as far as the > > number of CPUs and the amount of RAM in a system. RHEL 4 ES and RHEL 4 > > AS can both support the hardware listed for RHEL AS. The difference is > > that if you call Red Hat and have support for RHEL ES and you have more > > than 2 physical processors or more than 16 GB of RAM they will tell you > > that you are running an unsupported configuration. If you are running > > RHEL 4 AS with the same configuration, you are running a supported > > configuration. > > > > These issues do not plague CentOS. You can expect CentOS 4 to run > > hardware up to the same configuration of RHEL 4 AS. > > > > Barry > > Barry and Craig, > > Thanks for your answers. This helps a lot. Is there anything that RH 4 > ES or AS can do that Centos 4.4 is unable to perform. Then it looks > like Centos is just as stable as ES or AS, and the support will probably > be better on this list than calling RH. > > I was considering migrating an application from SCO to RedHat, and now > it looks like Centos would even be better. ---- Red Hat is selling a service level agreement. CentOS is user supported. You have to draw your own conclusions as to the value of a Red Hat SLA. Craig