11 Aug
2022
11 Aug
'22
8:25 p.m.
Quoting Linus Sphinx (sphinxtar(a)gmail.com):
Call me old fashioned but if I was actually trying to
make money off
running linux I'd buy it a license.
{shrug}
I've often been senior in Operations, but never consulted, let alone
allowed to decide, whether to spend money on an RHEL contract or deploy
the leading, unbranded RHEL rebuild, instead. (That was CentOS at that
time.)
So, I simply reported observed fact: Corporate places that deploy lots
of Red Hat, such as firms that have dozens or hundreds of machines in
data centres, strongly tend to deploy the leading, unbranded RHEL
rebuild du jour, not RHEL. And more to the immediately point I was
addressing, they _certainly_ do not deploy Fedora in production. That
would be unwise, even past the folly limits of corporate America.
Aside: During a long employment stint in the Linux Mangement department
of a very large EDA (electronic design automation) firm that _did_
deploy RHEL, the firm had a pressing need for help with a very serious
RHEL software problem, escalated it to top Red Hat software talent, and
got no satisfaction, i.e., the bug was not fixed. Just anecdata.