Rogelio wrote: > My apologies if this question has been previously answered, but could > anyone here provide me with resources that I might use to help build a > case for exclusively using CentOS in an enterprise environment? > (Approximately 200 servers) > > Long story short, I've used a little of everything out there > (Gentoo/Debian/*BSD/Slackware) and have a fairly good overall strategy > of how they all work (all of them have lived on my laptop at one time > or another over the last 10 years or so), but I'm now looking for > solid business reasons that I can present to the CxO types of a > company to show them that CentOS is probably where they'd like to > look. > > Reasons thus far I've come up with include: > > --free *and* "fully" (at least, in my experience) compatible with RHEL > --fairly stable (I don't have problems unless I start mixing repos) > --yum packages (almost as cool as Debian! Ok, I'm biased...or maybe I > don't know how to properly use yum?) (nah. yum needs some more catching up. in any case, a working software management system.) If this is a Linux shop, the answer would be what everybody is most comfortable with. That fact that you can now make your own repository/repositories has made the score more even against Debian, deb and apt. Any distro without tools for managing packages on multiple servers from a local repository should be dropped. You can therefore paint Centos in this light as one that meets such needs.