I recently told a friend of mine that I have always considered Linux to be way more desirable and practical than NT as a server platform but that if it came down to a choice between using Red Hat vs. Windows Server 2003, that I would actually choose the latter.
I haven't used Redhat in a looong time, so I may be biased, but looking at the way it is marketed and everything else associated with it, I just somehow cannot shake the feeling that RH is effectively its own proprietary platform.
Then I come across the following comments in http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8982
"Sun does seem to have a beef with Red Hat; that much was obvious from our conversation. Jonathan believes that Red Hat's ways in the business are not fully honest. He believes that Red Hat locks Enterprise customers in, just like Microsoft does, by steadily moving away from the LSB, by patching and forking code (including using a very non-standard Linux kernel) and so applications get certified or only work in the Red Hat codebase and no other Linux distro. Such an example is Oracle, where they do not support any Linux distro other than Red Hat-based ones. Jonathan believes that Red Hat, by differentiating the code so much, has created its own incompatible platform, and is therefore virtually pushing customers to continue use Red Hat instead of Debian or Gentoo or other [Linux distro]"
Such comments echo all the stuff I've always had in the back of my mind wrt Red Hat.
Questions are: I wonder how many people on this list feel the same way and are turned off by Red Hat? And for those PLUGgers who do use Red Hat extensively, do you feel there is a growing schism between RH and the other Linux distros?
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