On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:

> I've been waiting for at least a decade now for a Linux distribution to pick 
> one of the CMs out there and just
> start supporting using said CM as the default way to manage their 
> distribution.   It seems like the commercial distributions
> (RHEL, SuSe, ??) all want to build their own GUI based management system from 
> scratch.   I'm guessing this is part of their
> attempt at "value-add" in order to convince people to buy even bigger support 
> contracts.   For me it just means, they are no better then the free 
> distributions (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) in terms of real world support.   I've 
> rarely had to contact
> vendor support for software, but I've had to install/reinstall systems 
> countless times where a by default CM would have been a big advantage.


Well, RH is starting to focus on Puppet, to integrate w/ their Satellite 
replacement.  They're integrating Foreman into Katello, which is the upstream 
of CloudForms.

It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.   


Matthew Barr
mb...@mbarr.net
c: (646) 727-0535

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