From: Alan Cox alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: RHEL 3.0 or Fedora for a 'production environment' ? To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:45:49 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com
And this is why I know of a few data centers already considering the
move
to slackware for all new boxes and gradual replacements over time, I think RH have lost a lot of friends with this move, the days of RH
When you try maintaining software for years to the standards Red Hat does it turns out to be quite costly. Some people will choose to take that cost themselves, others may choose to buy RH or other business oriented products.
populating data centers are gone, with a support of only a few months fedora will never see its way in there, can you imagine a center with hundreds and hundreds of boxes runing around replaceing it every 3 months?
Fedora is aimed at developers - people who contribute and want cool stuff rather than people who simply want the cheapest possible business deal without regard to quality. There is always a market it isnt worth addressing - the people who won't even pay the cost of the service they provide.
I cant, some of our servers are still running 7.3, cause we knew RH
will
put out errata if its seriou enough, general updates who cares, get
the
tarball, looks like thats how we'll be updateing untill we decide
which
way to go, update by tarballs in future, or move onto slackware or
suse.
Your right, and if the business economics work for you then nobody would expect you to do anything different.
Alan
I am looking another OS besides Windows to use. Microsoft licensing issues. Fedora fits the bill.
Mike