Re: [SLUG] serious distro comparisions

From: Jim Wildman (jim@rossberry.com)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 04:47:09 EDT


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:19:51AM -0400, ethan@ethanzimmerman.com wrote:
>
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> Red Hat, having dropped its commercial distro, is going toward the
> community-based model, like Debian. It's too early to say if they'll do
> a good job.

Red Hat dropped their boxed sets, not their commercial distro. They are
very much still in the commercial enterprise environment. As far as I
know, they and SUSE are still the only 2 distrubitions to offer 24x7x365
support contracts suitable for data center support (along the lines of
HP, Sun, and IBM/AIX).
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