On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:33:20PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > The major goal of CentOS is binary compatibility with RHEL. > > I'm sure it lacks certification, but that's not the same as "not > working." If it runs on RHEL there's every likelihood it will also work > on CentOS. > > If there's an actual problem, and IBM/Tivoli tries to give you the > runaround, you might well muse in their hearing, that perhaps Amanda or > Bacula will do the job. Certainly, both are in use on IBM's zSeries > systems, so they're capable of fairly serious work.
Although I agree with your statements, this is not the way it works with big companies. They do formally not support their stuff on non-listed platforms and big customers on their turn do not want to take the risk of running critical applications on (partly) non-supported software. -- -- Jos Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
