On Wednesday 25 January 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > AT the risk of starting a flamewar.....I am being advised by consultants
> > that I need to 'upgrade' my Fedora Core servers to RH Enterprise as it
> > is 'more robust', 'better supported', 'easier to upgrade' etc etc. We
> > are currently running them as our webserver (informational only - no
> > transactions), mailserver and intranet webserver (this one is a bit
> > slow, but just needs more RAM).
> >
> > I am unaware of any major differences in the products that would require
> > us to change over and start paying for what we now do for free -
> > maintenance has been trivial, yum runs regularly via cron, downtime has
> > been non-existent.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Welcome to commercialised Linux ?
>
> Seriously, I wouldn't run Fedora in a production environment, not
> *because its bad* (its not), but because Redhat does not offer
> commercial support like they do for RHEL.
>
> That said, if you dont have a support contract today, then its hardly a
> problem  is it ?   - just make whatever commercial decision makes sense
> to you.
>
> [or find a different linux/a different consultant]

One of my customers insists on RHE. It (on an ongoing year-to-year basis) 
takes 2+ times the sys admin, and that is 2+ times as hard to do as all of my 
other customers who I've used SuSE on. 
Depends on if you're paying or being paid.

James
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