Greetings,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Kumara Guru <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Don't touch (even think about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server >> platform for new production apps. > I will just quote fragments of one of our esteemed members Shri Senthil Nathan's response: "If stakes are high or if it is mission critical then go for RHEL/CentOS." Remember it takes roughly 18 months for an enterprise class application to go online and accepted by corporate users (maybe less in a slmaller organisations). I have deployed mission critical systems in corporates with an _IT Department_ filled with PHB's who wants to push their responsibility to vendors. In which case, It makes sense to go with development using Centos which can then be cnverted into RHEL/Oracle Linux of they want to buy 24/7 support from another corporate. Education sector is _not_ mission critical (spare the whining of faculties who love to reboot frequently and who assume God roles and mostly without any industry exposure whatsoever). I have managed a three node RHCS cluster in vnbrims.org, an Institute for MMS(MBA) for about 2 and 1/2 years. Ubuntu/Mint for desktops: OK. But for servers (especially located in remote data centers): RHEL/Centos if you wand peace of mind and do not want to jump though the hoops and loops of upgrade every now and then. Your are free to make your choice. Of course above IMHO, YMMV, E&OE etc. applies. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
