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.
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