Rajagopal, Can you explain why not Ubuntu ?
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Vijai Ganapathy http://solarindia.co.cc Mailto: [email protected] Mobile : +919632351915 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
