Simon 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.
The only major difference I am aware of is the guaranteed lifetime of
the product (5 years???) - that is RH will support the code for a
particular version of RHEL for 5(??) years (bug fixes, security patches
etc etc). Centos and others (RHEL source code is still FOSS and hence
Centos and others download it, compile it and release it as binaries)
will provide that for you. If all is working now I don't see the need to
"upgrade" to RHEL, particularly if you have been doing fine without
paying for some "official" RH support. Centos or other similar
distributions can fill any other difference there may be, and the
difference may not be something worth upgrading to Centos over.
Fil
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