License Issue

[Michael A. Peters]

Jason Viloria wrote:
>
> If you do not need support from redhat then you will be better off 
> running Centos 5.1 which is a rebuild of Redhat. 
Not necessarily.
It sounds like a decent sized company. Is it worth the risk of not 
having a support contract on at least some of the machines?

Sometimes you don't know you need it until you do.
I would at least buy rhel for anything production. You can probably get 
away with CentOS for less critical user workstations, especially if you 
have linux guru's in your IT department, but for a decent sized company, 
you can seriously end up losing your job by sacrificing support to save 
a few bucks and then an issue comes up that you can't resolve.