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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:30:16PM -0400, Digimer wrote:
> It's not that companies feel that RHEL is the only Linux distro. It's
> that Red Hat the support company is the best at providing support to
> large businesses. Companies pay Red Hat for access to timely updates and
> for their support infrastructure.
> 
> Those who don't need or don't want to pay for that can use CentOS and
> get 100% the same software without paying any money.

And then when they try to run some other proprietary software it refuses
to run because you have centos and not RHEL, and the support people say
"We don't know what centos is.  We only support RHEL."  Nevermind that
we have no interest or need in RHEL support.

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Len Sorensen
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