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My reading of this is that Rakuten used to use a combination of RHEL and CentOS. Now that CentOS as a "down stream" equivalent of RHEL is dead (its selling poin
by samwillis 4y ago
My reading of this is that Rakuten used to use a combination of RHEL and CentOS. Now that CentOS as a "down stream" equivalent of RHEL is dead (its selling point), they have reassessed their platform and gone with Rocky.
Rocky is "down stream" of RHEL, CentOS 8+ is "up stream" of RHEL (since 2020, and what Fedora has always been).
CIQ sell support contracts for Rocky linux, so rather than having a combination of RHEL (with support) and CentOS. They now just have Rocky with an optional support contract.
Linux is open source, they are aloud to do this, thats the point. They are not leaching. Red Hat, by ending CentOS as a "down stream" equivalent, have brought this on themselves.
There will be a lot of other users of RHEL and CentOS who are going through the same process right now as CentOS 7 support ends next year. We will see more companies making the same choice.
- jamespo 4y agoI wonder how many RHEL licenses they actually had, a minimal amount to make support requests I'd guess.
- j33zusjuice 4y agoI’d bet that’s accurate. The CEO very clearly did not understand the licensing models because you don’t pay per core for RHEL licenses; this isn’t Oracle. VDC licenses are cheap: MSRP is $4k USD per hypervisor with premium support, and I’m sure you can negotiate a discount at a certain size. You can probably game VDC licensing if you really wanted (I’m not endorsing the idea of stealing from Red Hat, and to be clear, my company isn’t interested in getting sued to save what amounts to pocket change for them). Or you could switch to OpenShift for virtualization (because who isn’t at least _considering_ dumping VMWare now that Broadcom owns them?) and container management, and run all the RHEL VMs and UBIs your heart desires.