On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > CentOS is not approved for DOD use. In fact, CentOS is not now, nor has > it ever been *certified* for anything. Certifications require people to > PAY to certify a product. > > Specifically, EAL4 Certification, a requirement for the DOD, costs up to > 2.5 million dollars .. see this link: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level#Impact_on_cost_and_schedule > > That cost would be for each main version of CentOS (2.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and > 7) .. so the cost to have all 6 previous major versions certified would be: > > 6 x $2.5 Million = $15 Million dollars. > > Since CentOS is given away for free ... I can't afford to pay 15 million > dollars to have it EAL4 certified .. can anyone on this list? > > Certifications and security testing and assurance, along with a Service > Level Agreement for fixing bugs is why people who require any of those > things need to buy RHEL. Incidentally, someone has just started a thread related to DoD in the RH community discussion session entitled, "A DoD version of RHEL - A money maker for RH? Maybe!" : https://access.redhat.com/comment/913243 Akemi