On 07/08/2014 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > ... How much is this going to cost a typical company _just_ to keep > their existing programs working the same way over the next decade > (which is a relatively short time in terms of business-process changes)? Les, this is the wrong question to ask. The question I ask is 'What will be my return on investment be, in potentially lower costs, to run my programs in a different way?' If there is no ROI, or a really long ROI, well, I still have C6 to run until 2020 while I invest the time in determining if a new way is better or not. Fact is that all of the major Linux distributions are going this way; do you really think all of them would change if this change were stupid? Even the Unix philosophy was new at one point. Just because it works doesn't mean it's the best that can be found. > Even if the changes themselves are minor, you have to cover the cost > of paying some number of people for that 'get used to the syntax' > step. Personally I think Red Hat did everyone a disservice by > splitting the development side off to fedora and divorcing it from the > enterprise users that like the consistency. Consistency is not the only goal. Efficiency should trump consistency, and I for one like being able to see where the direction lies well in advance of EL adopting a feature blind. Or don't you remember how Red Hat Linux development used to be before Fedora and the openness of that process? (Leaving part of my .sig in for a change, as I'm wearing the CIO hat in this post.) -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute ...