On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:21:39PM -0500, gregg wrote: > I must differ in opinion here. Although Debian and CentOS are very good > distros. Neither is Enterprise class like RHEL and SLES. Nor do either > have as many functional and security certifications. I won't dispute the > fact that many distros are out their in use. I see enterprises running > Open SUSE, Fedora, ... The downside of these is they have a short life > cycle and require a lot more work to upgrade after 12 or 18 months. Most > Enterprise OS versions these days are supported and maintained for five > to seven years. Making them much better choices for a production OS in > development, staging, and production environments.
We would be lucky to get a Debian update in 18 months, never mind 12. On the other hand when you get the upgrade, it will be probably the smoothest upgrade of any you will ever do (which unfortunately doesn't mean there won't ever be any issues, but usually very few). To me Enterprise Class means "There is someone to yell at and blame if it doesn't work who is responsible for fixing it". It means nothing more than that. It certainly does not imply better tested or higher quality, although for many if not most enterprises, the responsibility part is often more important. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
