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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." i worked in many different companies (including multi-billion revenue per year), an
by tguvot 3y ago
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
i worked in many different companies (including multi-billion revenue per year), and all of them used centos in order to have "proper enterprise linux" but for free. The only cases when real redhat was used is for something that actually required it by licensing/support terms - like Oracle, or alternatively contractual obligations for SLA.
Pretty sure that IBM/Redhat know this as well and "third party open source packages compatability" not exactly something that they care about. Availability of sources only takes business from them.
I personally somewhat happy about it. I moved to Debian 20 years ago and it "uncomfortable" to live in RH derived world. Even though Redhat 4 (or 4.1) was first ever Linux distribution that I installed back in 1997
PS. Also when RedHat "partnered" with CentOS back in 2014, it was somewhat obvious what is the direction. If there is anything that it surprising, then it will be that it took so much time.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y ago> i worked in many different companies, and all of them used centos in order to have "proper enterprise linux" but for free. The only cases when real redhat was used is for something that actually required it by licensing/support terms - like Oracle, or alternatively contractual obligations for SLA. I worked on a product that allowed both RHEL and CentOS, and then moved to a different one that mandated RHEL with a supported contract. The latter was far less stressful to deal with, because any time there was an OS issue, we could pretty easily tell them, "Go to Red Hat." The shops that were on CentOS on the other product tended to be small businesses (and cheapskates), and every time an OS issue arose, it was a screaming match trying to convince them that we're not going to fix their OS for them.
- tguvot 3y agoi just edited my post when you replied. companies where i worked had multi-billion revenues. it's not exactly small business. they just don't want to pay money for proper redhat. they had money to do so, but savings are savings.