>>> CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is >>> owed. If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are >>> wanted or needed, PLEASE buy a contract from someone >>> >>> TANSTAAFL >> >> And yes I started looking elsewhere and with reasonably priced offer >> from >> Oracle >> this project is probably dead in the water. > > Hi AK, > > Why would you swing so radically in the other direction from free to > fee? > > Have you looked at SL? They don't have 5.6 but seem to be on a stable > 6.0 rel. Hi, I'm not actually looking for free. I'd gladly support the efforts of our "prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" with what little I have if their offers wouldn't be so ridiculously expensive. I hope the situation may change now with Oracle in direct competition with RH for RH and RH-based distros user base. BTW Oracle offers installable binaries for free. I didn't get into details yet but this sounds like a viable alternative. AK