Fedora as production server OS

Marcus O. White 1lnxraider at comcast.net
Tue Nov 25 10:25:49 UTC 2003


Excellent point... Would RedHat have dropped RedHat Linux in favor of
Fedora if say 70% of the users had paid the $60/per year support fee
and/or even purchased it? I think not...

Marcus O.

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:19, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 03:50 11/17/2003, you wrote:
> >My main concern is security updates and stability, and of course upgrading 1-2
> >times a year is possible but not desirable. I have been looking at Suse, 
> >Debian
> >and Slackware aswell but it seems like waste to change distro when we have RHL
> >competence in our company. But we do not like to get jailed into Redhat's 
> >commersial
> >train....
> 
> Just saw this other message.
> 
> Let me get this straight: you have 10,000 users as per your other post, 
> your main concern is security and stability, and upgrading too often is not 
> desirable. Sounds like a perfect match for ANY enterprise offering, 
> including RHEL. Yet you "do not like to get jailed into Red Hat's 
> commercial train"???
> 
> Unless you are providing service to those 10K people for free, then you are 
> making money off your server (which is likely not a $10 computer that you 
> found in a cereal box). Given that assumption (please correct me if I am 
> wrong), then you want to make money yourself but you don't want to pay Red 
> Hat, which has provided you with an operating system and all your server 
> platforms for the last four years or so. For some reason, _you_ are allowed 
> to run a business but _they_ are "jailing" you. Why, those thieves!
> 
> I do hope I'm wrong, and that you are not the freeloading, cheap, 
> give-me-everything-for-free-so-I-can-get-rich-on-your-sweat type of person 
> this message sounds like. But it does sound that way, so I'll make the 
> recommendation I would have made anyway: pay the $350/year for RHEL-ES. It 
> seems to be _the_ ideal product for you.
> 
> >I guess i'm looking for some advices from people in the same situation.
> 
> I'm done giving advice to you, sir. I put many hours into trying to help 
> people just as others help me, but I believe we all have a moral obligation 
> to support our community by helping each other when we use (or if 
> appropriate, pay for) Linux products and services. It appears from your 
> message that you do not share my views; while that is your right, I find it 
> distasteful.
> 





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