"Rodolfo J. Paiz" wrote: > > At 11:40 10/2/2003, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > >The problem I and others have is the abandonment of those who need > >an affordable, reliable product whose shelf life is longer than 6 > >months. No, the Enterprise line does not count as affordable. > But they _are_ expected to release something for us, and soon. I sure hope so! I have had a longer talk with management today - I need a solution for our Linux servers by mid November (the time until end of the year is needed for the validation process which is required in my kind of business (pharmaceutical research, new drug approval process)). If Red Hat has nothing to offer by then, I have no choice but use something different. > >As excellent as the Red Hat community is the community has no > >experience in releasing timely bug fixes/security updates because > >the community has not had to do it before. > > Ah, I see your point. Well taken, although incomplete. I mentioned > _this_ Red Hat community, since the lists are what I see most. > However, Bugzilla appears to be alive and well and I do see a bunch > of patches and suggestions and whatever coming from the community, > not just RH employees. > So while Debian may or may not have a better community in that sense > (I am not qualified to offer an opinion on that), the RH community is > not null and not ineffective. The problem here is two-sided: my own trust and what's better to sell to my manafgement. I know from years of their existence that the Debian community is capable of running a good Linux distribution. The Red Hat community has not yet had the opportunity to prove this. I know nothing about Fedora, so I'm a bit reluctant. Of course I hope to be proven wrong, but at work I must not take chances. My management, with nearly no clue about technology, understands the current situation about the Red Hat distro roughly like this: The trustworthy company Red Hat, Inc. has abandonned the affordable version of their Linux distro, and a bunch of geeks now tries to run it. The name change to Fedora only makes things worse - my management only trusts the name Red Hat. My management doesn't realize Debian is community-driven (and I won't tell!), they only have heared the name and think it's a company... This is why currently Debian is easier to "sell" to my management than Fedora. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
