[CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

Sat Mar 26 21:29:53 UTC 2011
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

Am 26.03.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Gary Scarborough:

> There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer  
> list and this list about CentOS.  My initial thought was why not  
> have CentOS and SL merge.  Since they have different goals I can  
> understand the reason not to.  So my next question is, has no  
> corporate entity offered to sponsor full time people to work on  
> CentOS?  It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for various  
> things.  I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development  
> by paying for people to build full time.  Has this subject come up  
> before?


Every couple of months.

People who have enough money to make significant contributions to this  
goal usually hire a couple of competent admins and do it in-house.

For the rest, there is RHEL - or OEL.

Do you think one can undercut RHAT or ORCL?