On 09/26/2011 07:32 PM, Kumara Guru wrote: > Yeah, since when did the Enterprise looked to public mailing lists for > answers and shared plans of their deployments? Glad, you put the > public mailing list in its place.
Some actually do especially if they are educational institutions or non-profits looking for help with infrastructure. I have gotten involved in the past with some efforts like that. It depends on the enterprise in question. Yet, when the OP was looking for a > LAMP setup, it was immediately assumed he is an Enterprise guy and > there was a completely unjustified suggestion "Don't touch (even think > about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server platform for new production > apps". How is this useful? I don't think this question is directed at me since I did no such thing. You asked why does a LAMP stack deployment needs a longer lifecycle and I explained some of the reason why that might be the case. I personally have no real use for a distro with a longer update cycle and I use Fedora full time and contribute to it. I don't make the mistake of assuming such that this is suitable for everyone and understand that there are people who do depend on a distro release supported for a longer time. > Make no mistake, I have nothing against RHEL/CentOS but you cannot > trivialize another distro like Ubuntu just like that, or argue that a > completely arbitrary N-years support cycle is the clincher without > considering the specific internals of the organization itself. If > tomorrow, RHEL or Ubuntu provided 20 years extended support for every > release, will it be any more useful? Yep. It would be more useful for certain set of customers and some are willing to pay a lot more money for such a service and get a custom update subscription. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
