Fedora Core 6 ROCKS ! Salute to the developers !

[Andy Green]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Good to know, Kim. I've been debating FC6 / Edgy Effy, and I think you
> just made the decision for me. Thanks!

Just a FYI, the grass is seldom greener on the other side

http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/ubuntu-edgy-upgrades-a-disaster-for-many/

Few years ago I also thought to look away from Fedora, at that time to 
SuSE.  Lo, their forums were full of wailing and weeping worse than the 
Fedora ml at that time.  I realized RHAT is a shining beacon of Linux 
goodness, despite any momentary shortcomings and buzz, so much solid 
engineering work can't be ignored.  Something a new set of people will 
have a chance to learn all over again with Oracle!

''...
Open Source Weblog
97% of Red Hat customers would remain loyal
October 27, 2006

You’ve probably seen mention of CIO Insight Vendor Value survey since 
Oracle announced plans to undercut Red Hat and criticized the support it 
provides its customers with. As Matt Asay mentions here, Kevin Carmony 
here, and Dave Dargo here, Red Hat ranked number one for vendor value 
two years running, while Oracle placed 39 in 2005, down from 28 in 2004.
Taking a look at the research I came across a couple more statistics 
that will make happy reading for the shareholders that bought rather 
than sold Red Hat shares on Thursday.

Red Hat also ranked highest based on the percentage of ‘excellent’ 
ratings, with 30.4%, while Oracle was the second worst vendor based on 
the percentage of ‘poor’ ratings, with 16.9%. All of which undermines 
Oracle’s argument about providing better support, somewhat.
The really significant statistic, in the context of Oracle’s Unbreakable 
Linux announcement, is as follows:

Asked if they would continue to do business with their vendor if they 
had a choice, 97.0% of Red Hat customers answered ‘yes’, the highest 
percentage of any vendor. In contrast 25.9% of Oracle’s customers said 
‘no’, making it the ninth most likely to lose customers.

...''

http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/10/97_of_red_hat_c.html

26% of "proprietary software vendor" Oracle users would take any viable 
alternative than Oracle...  3% for RHAT...

-Andy