Well, I'll try to track the decision chain for you: 1. We target customers which, among other platforms, run also RHEL (AS or ES, as far as we can tell right now). 2. We need to test our product to make sure that it runs well on those platforms. 3. We want to save money on installing multiple copies of these platforms.
This is were my question came from. Our QA team though that they can't install RHEL without paying RH and therefore went with Fedora Core for some of the test platforms. IMHO this is wrong because we don't expect to see FC at our customers' sites in the next 1-5 months when we expect to test and install our product there. How close are cAos/CentOS to what we should expect at customers who run "real" RHEL? From reading the item at Linmagazine (thanks for the poiner!) It sounds like they (CentOS) just replace RH's update service for free but will it really minimize the amount of "negative surprises" we get when we install our product at customers site on "real" RHEL? I suppose that sticking to the "released" RHEL without updates is not real because we'll miss on updates installed at customers sites, right? Right now, after reading the item about CentOS it sounds like the best choice for us and I'll recommand it to my company after doing some more digging (and feedback from this forum, if any).. Cheers, --Amos On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 17:31:19 +0100, Uri Sharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to know if they are right - do you HAVE to pay RH for the > > right to install RHEL > > AS on your server or is the payment required ONLY if you want to > > subscribe to their > > update service? > > Slightly off-thread, but still - wondering if companies, such as yours, even > consider using cAos/CentOS (http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/5503) or > others, as a drop-in replacement for RHEL, either because they are price > sensitive or to guarantee long term service. > > Regards > > -- > Uri Sharf > Ed., Linmagazine > ------------------------------- > Visit: http://linmagazine.co.il > > ---------- Your email is protected by Mailshell ---------- > To block spam or change delivery options: > http://www.mailshell.com/control.html?a=balatsrial4tlprafm_jqupsjnpz1k > > FreshAddress.com http://rd.mailshell.com/ad482 > Earn up to $3 for each of your friends who signs up with Mailshell! > http://rd.mailshell.com/sp5 > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
