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Systems engineer here, I haven't worked at a company that pays for Linux support in 12 years and this was at scale (10K+ servers). You don't need IBM or Canonic
by vajrabum 3y ago
Systems engineer here, I haven't worked at a company that pays for Linux support in 12 years and this was at scale (10K+ servers). You don't need IBM or Canonical to get patches or a heads up about major vulns. Several ways to go with this but I get up to date patches for free with Debian. And I can count on my hand the number of times that any org I've been part of needed a kernel engineer or access to one. Support contracts for OS AFAIK aren't worth the money any more unless you really don't have anyone who can do system support.
- pjmlp 3y agoThat is why so many freetards are angry with CentOS acquision.
- vajrabum 3y agoFreetards? Do you make money from an OS, compiler or similar infrastructure? If not, then your employer would in my opinion be making a mistake to send $$$ to a vendor of same unless they're in a very special niche. One of the only enduring lessons from IT history is that there's always going to come a time to move on from some technology or vendor. And IBM isn't doing wrong by trying to capture some cash but it's very late in this game and its a losing battle. I'm guessing that it's going to be the 'legacy' cloud vendor's time soon. The markup is way out of whack.