because back in the day, no distribution was good enough for our needs. today is a completely other situation. redhat might, but they borked it somehow as they

because back in the day, no distribution was good enough for our needs. today is a completely other situation. redhat might, but they borked it somehow as they said we would not be allowed to change anything or loose all support. at least that was what i heard. and then there was supposedly the decision "we do not want any external company due to the bad experience with microsoft".