Jos Vos wrote:
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.
Joe might work for Big Corp, but he's not said that.
If he runs xfs, I expect he's out of support. If he can contemplate
that, he can probably contemplate other unsupported alternatives. I can
imagine Solaris might not be welcome, but it is a possible solution.
Joe's call, not yours or mine. I'm just offering the choice. If it's not
Joe's call, he talks to whomever does make the call, and I would prefer
to offer the choice of a supported solution that doesn't work and three
unsupported ones that probably will and need some evaluation.
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Cheers
John
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