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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
