Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > 2009/1/18 David Tremblay <david at ngowiki.net>: > >> My conclusion is : if you want to build your infrastructure around a >> commercial linux and you care about freedom and want nothing to do with >> Microsoft you either go with the market leader (Red Hat) or the smaller but >> quite bullish and "sexy" contender (Ubuntu/Canonical) >> > In the real world, I have to agree with you( but Andre doesn't xD). > Well... Yes and No.
I have to agree on the fact that Redhat is the market leader for *enterprise* oriented GNU/Linux distro. But I think it's not aimed at small or even medium (depending on what we call medium) enterprises... And let's not even talk about end-users they let down (which is what brought Fedora alive from a community start-over)... I also agree on the fact that Redhat is doing a huge work to bring serious technical services to them. Here I am talking about enterprise grade level services like: high availability, load balancing, distributed databases, clustering, network storage -- for those I know about -- and probably more. They bring it almost ready to use and with a serious commercial support behind it. So if you are a big company with high level technical needs, and plenty of money, yes, go Redhat, they will most probably fulfill them! Now, if you are a small organism (may be not even a company), or a medium one but you don't want to put everything centralized in a data center (you want local servers to optimize your work), then you'll probably choose some distro more interested in end-users than in enterprises... > However, companies those have Unix in-house experts, a distribution will > not be a problem because they can handle every from source code. > Exactly! And this is our choice at AuF: having in-house technical people mastering the main FLOSS technologies, and able to learn more of them, so we can start from a good ground-base distro like Debian (well... it's not a ground-base anymore, but... still good for a base distro ;-) ) and do anything we want on top of this! > Please encourage the use of FOSS/Linux in Vietnam so I can find a job in > Hanoi( I am working on it, really) On my side I will always promote the use of FLOSS, and especially GNU/Linux, in Vietnam. But I won't promote doing it wrong... Of course I won't fight against users willing to try something else that what I recommend! Because testing every distro is the best way to choose the most convenient for you needs. And people will come to Debian/Ubuntu soon or later anyway! :-D About your return in H? N?i, it reminds me that we should encourage companies to announce FLOSS jobs to our list... Or may be create a web site specialized in FLOSS jobs in Vietnam? Does such a website already exist? -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 260 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090119/f29a1fd9/attachment.pgp
