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Wow. So many things incorrect..let's just look at one. "The set operating systems used in the enterprise is fairly small: RHEL5, RHEL6, Debian 6, Ubuntu LTS."
by ironchef 15y ago
Wow. So many things incorrect..let's just look at one.
"The set operating systems used in the enterprise is fairly small: RHEL5, RHEL6, Debian 6, Ubuntu LTS."
In germany and portions of europe, add SUSE.
In korea, add HPUX.
If you're in pharma or health insurance, add AIX.
Dealing with enterprises in the US? You also need to deal with Windows environments.
While the problem seems simple, it's extraordinarily complex due to everyone's environment / way of doing things / "special snowflake syndrome".
Sorry if this seems kurt, but i've had to write commercial software in this space. You don't want to know how many times I've gotten in arguments with various enterprises about how stupid is it to do X, Y, or Z. Doesn't matter...your software needs to support it.
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- nigelk 15y agoIt is easy to fall into the trap of imagining all enterprise environments are like your own, and even when "special snowflake syndrome" is based on a false assumption, there are huge differences globally in terms of dominant OSes, even if you only think about Linux. The original author is largely correct when it comes to the US in my opinion though. That subset of OSes does cover the vast majority of US enterprises on Linux.