On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 23:05:34 (-0500) Geoffrey Furnish writes:
> ...
> My own experience might be summarized as "life in a ginormous corporation".
> As Linux pushes into large enterprises, companies/corporations wind up
> spinning up ginormous (read bureacratic/slow) IT organizations which seek
> "standardization" as they roll out server farms with gobs and gobs of cpus,
> and even attempting to provide worldwide multi-site synchronization of the
> software environment ("the stack") across this huge expanse of computing
> hardware.
>
> One hint: They don't use Debian etch, or Gentoo, etc. They use Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, and I don't mean 5.3. Right now I am staring at the most
> computing horsepower I've seen since I left the US national labs, and it's
> all been recently "upgraded" (cough cough) to the amazingly modern Linux
> distro known as "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (drum roll) ... 4". There are
> rumors of a skunk works RHEL5 eval study. I figure it will see the light of
> day in 3 years at the earliest.
These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous corporation for which
RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And have similar doubts that will
change for a couple years at least. So the legacy png driver will remain very
useful to me & my team for some time to come.
--
Maurice LeBrun
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