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What's an enterprise shop? I've worked at a big public company that used ubuntu-server.
by leobelle 13y ago
What's an enterprise shop? I've worked at a big public company that used ubuntu-server.
- sixbrx 13y agoOne that values support from companies like Oracle, is a good first approximation.
- leobelle 13y agoIf you define an enterprise shop to mean a company that doesn't use software like ubuntu-server, congratulations, you are right, but you have also made a completely meaningless observation.
- sixbrx 13y agoWell good thing that I didn't define it tautologically like that then. Instead, I suggested - as did your parent comment - that support contracts are very important to "enterprise" shops. That can be considered a defining characteristic in so much as nebulous terms have defining characteristics. And if you don't understand the importance of those support contracts, a lot of their behaviour will appear strange. It's simply a fact that a lot of these companies officially support RedHat, often Suse, sometimes CentOS, but rarely so far for Ubuntu Server. That may change, but Ubuntu is definitely not there yet.
- leobelle 13y agoOk sure, that makes sense, if the qualification is SLAs and the like. I bet RedHat dominates in that case.
- StillBored 13y agoSupport isn't just about SLA's, its about your vendor actually providing software/drivers/etc for your environment. I think you will find many commercial applications only support recent versions of RHEL, SLES or in some industries Oracle Linux. These products don't ship with source code, and they tend to fail spectacularly when put on machines that don't happen to have the "right" kernel, library and system tools. Frankly, having shipped binary products on linux in the past, it can be a real PITA just maintaining an application over three or four versions of RHEL or SLES (which have a lot more in common with each other than they do with debian based distros). Two random links to prove my point: http://www.3ds.com/support/certified-hardware/simulia-system-information/abaqus-610/system-requirements-for-abaqus-610-products/ http://www.3ds.com/support/certified-hardware/simulia-system... Random hardware link: http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/DefaultNewSearch.aspx http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/D...
- sliverstorm 13y agoI don't have a formal definition, but in my head "enterprise" is somewhere around the "10,000+ headcount" line. I of course have only worked for a few enterprise shops; my evidence is purely anecdotal, and I know that. An important part of the equation though as to how much this matters to Canonical or RedHat; was this shop you worked in paying for a support contract? (Support contracts are perhaps not a defining feature of "enterprise", but they are a common theme)
- spikels 13y agoEnterprise is where the people who choose the software don't use the software. Software is sold there not bought.
- abrowne 13y agoUS Army (2007): “When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source. It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is ‘the’ single largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer.”[1] [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20110521185400/http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61302 http://web.archive.org/web/20110521185400/http://www.linux.c...
- rbanffy 13y agoIsn't "General Justice" a great name for a superhero?
- mpyne 13y agoU.S. Navy uses Red Hat too, though perhaps not to that same extent as the Army.
- dfc 13y agoBaghdad is cool, I guess, I'd rather go to the space station with Debian: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-international-space-station-laptop-migration.html http://phys.org/news/2013-05-international-space-station-lap...
- SimHacker 13y agoThat's because the US Army is still fighting the cold war, and thought it was "Red Hate Linux".