Views from an Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Fedora migrator

[William Muriithi]

> >> That matches my experience as well and also demonstrates nicely why
> >> the redhat model works.  They're a value add making money selling a
> >> "free" product.
> >
> > Unfortunately a lot of companies think RHEL is the only linux
distribution
> > and hence won't even talk to you if you try to run their software on
> > anything else.
>
> Yes, this is a shame, I agree.  The world (I was going to say
> "computing world" but I think it extends beyond that) owes Debian a
> huge debt and it's not always or even often recognized.  It is quite
> frustrating to get .tar.gz or .rpm downloads but rarely a .deb.  I(t's
> also frustrating when the .rpm is for some ancient RHEL version too.
> :( )
>
May be we should blame the network effect but sometimes its even more weird.

Case in point, Cisco SSL vpn client is Java based yet they made it RedHat
specific. I thought Java is platform independent.

Other cases that have left me flabbergasted,  Vertica, Oracle or even Dell
will not support their application on Scientific Linux despite them being
the same binaries as RHEL.

You can just guess how long they will take to support Debian if the later
case is a problem

William
> > Not really redhat's fault, other than for being successful at doing what
> > they do.
>
> This is the point that is often left out so I'm glad you made it.  Red
> Hat has been successful while also being, as far as I can tell, a good
> corporate and FLOSS citizen.  The sad part is that their success masks
> the great work done by other groups.
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
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