On 8/29/06, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
like i said in a previous email... tell that to clients and customers and manufacturers from all over who can't get in touch with you and see if "enterprise" isnt very much part of the word.
so to me there isn't any distinction. being on the net 24/7 is a must.
you should see how rigorous gentoo's testing are.... nothing gets "unmasked" until its stable... rivals debian... but like i said... to each his own... you've got your own ideas... and i respect that you guys may not have the flexibility i may have in how i accomplish things. and there are limits in your activities.
i would contend though that extending gentoo to thousands of machines would be a challenge and there would probably be more simpler ways to do it.
"corporate" varies around the world. and the beauty of all this is that we each have solutions to our problems and we do it in different ways.
Gentoo running a family business mail server does not qualify as mission
critical in the enterprise sense of the word, despite the fact that it
means your mom/dad will be breathing down your throat when they can't
email.
like i said in a previous email... tell that to clients and customers and manufacturers from all over who can't get in touch with you and see if "enterprise" isnt very much part of the word.
so to me there isn't any distinction. being on the net 24/7 is a must.
The problem with Gentoo or any build-it-yourself distribution is that
you always have one-ofs. That's unacceptable in the enterprise, where
you grow from one server to thousands. When you're not talking about
maintaining just a handful of servers anymore, then standardization
becomes important.
When you use an enterprise distribution like Debian or CentOS/RHEL, you
leverage the fact that many other enterprises build on the same setup,
"lock, stock and barrel". The parts are known to work well individually,
and all together as a cohesive system.
These distributions also go through rigorous testing, and have
acceptable turnaround times for security updates. That gives you a
"known base" upon which to build your service, so you only need to focus
on your core competency (ie: the application you've built on which your
service relies).
you should see how rigorous gentoo's testing are.... nothing gets "unmasked" until its stable... rivals debian... but like i said... to each his own... you've got your own ideas... and i respect that you guys may not have the flexibility i may have in how i accomplish things. and there are limits in your activities.
i would contend though that extending gentoo to thousands of machines would be a challenge and there would probably be more simpler ways to do it.
"corporate" varies around the world. and the beauty of all this is that we each have solutions to our problems and we do it in different ways.
like i said, to each his own.
cheers.
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