On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 00:41 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-01-24, 18:11 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > How can I? If I'd buy RHEL, I wouldn't want to use CentOS, if > > I were using CentOS I wouldn't want to use RHEL. > > It might be your case, Yes. I have a university/research/engineering (EE/CS/IT) background, where flexibility/openness of the source-code and costs of the OS are the key points for choosing Linux (If choosing it at all!). > but there are many RH customers who have > RHEL for some mission-critical applications (or for the software, > where they need supported platform -- ehm, ehm, Oracle), Mission-critical is relative to the "mission" a system is deployed for. I wouldn't choose Linux to control a spacecraft or a nuclear power plant, but I didn't hesitate to chose Linux to control robots in a lab, nor do I hesitate to chose Fedora to host "my personal mission's" mission-critical data" ;) Of cause you are aiming at "big-businesses" combining deploying an OS with larger engineering tasks over longer time-frames (bookkeeping, billing, shop-systems etc.). True, that's not my domain ;) > but rest > of their server needs are covered by CentOS. Well, are you saying "CentOS + some engineering" aren't suitable for "mission-critical" purposes? How would that be different from using RHEL? OK, somebody else mentioned ISO9000 and other certifications, ... probably relevant in some cases, but probably irrelevant in many others. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
