Okay, so I just went to the Red Hat site. Tried to figure out what they offer. It's a mickey mouse site. Oh, they offer "support" for "enterprise linux". Okay,

Okay, so I just went to the Red Hat site. Tried to figure out what they offer. It's a mickey mouse site. Oh, they offer "support" for "enterprise linux". Okay, so are they offering support for a 10 year old release of Red Hat? Am I going to get immediate bug fixes to security problems? Am I going to get a modern tool chain that builds my system for that old release? How many engineers, exactly, are focused on that 10 year old platform? And so on. Whereas if I go to the Microsoft site, I can trivially find support lifecycles, details of what is supported, all of my tools pretty much interoperate (no breaking changes), it is easy to download from MSDN whatever set of technologies I need for any version of software, and so on. I realize I am being unfair - I am familiar with MS support, and not with Red Hat support, so obviously it will be easier for me to find this stuff. But, consider me your average CTO. I don't think the case has been made for long term support of OS as host for my applications (we are, after all, talking about buying an OS to host my applications, not support for servers, which RH is very good at, of course). Hard questions that a CTO should be asking, and I suspect the answers are not going to be good.