I have to agree with Bruce ( good ones made me laugh )
I work 80+ hours a week with LARGE production systems. What I am allowed to
say is ( and to drive home Bruce's point ) is that we were told NOT to
support Ubuntu. With SuSE being sold it's all Red Hat aka RHEL out there and
CentOS is 100% compatible ( I run my main work cluster on it ).

So for simple small scale projects, Ubuntu is great! When you start talking
large "my company depends on this" systems then your in the "enterprise"
level. For that I would strongly suggest CentOS since also as Bruce pointed
out when you need Oracle and or say to deploy a 12 PetaByte file system
using GPFS well don't call me if your using Ubuntu, I'm am forced to say
"sorry suck-a"

Once OEM's start recommending to deploy there software on Ubuntu, and I see
the customer set migration, then I will recommend Ubuntu. But currently
reality is that CentOS is one dam good enterprise platform that has been
used in production for many years.

Joe

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Bruce Locke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Gary Mort <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You lose everything cool by using Centos.
>
> If you're not sure you need CentOS/RHEL then you don't need CentOS/RHEL.
>
> Warning signs you're going to be using CentOS/RHEL in the near future:
>
> "Holy crap this is a piece of @#$@ software package.  I just want to
> get it running and walk away and never touch the damn thing again."
>
> "We pay $100,000 a year for a software package that depends on Oracle."
>
> "This SAN supported platforms document doesn't mention Ubuntu."
>
> "What?  I have to have a polygraph test done to get this job?"
>
> --
> Bruce A. Locke
> [email protected]
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