Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-those-who-like-to-wear-hats dept.

weatherbug asks: "I've recently been appointed as a member of a team to help determine the direction our organization is headed with Red Hat Linux. Currently we're using multiple versions from Red Hat 6.x through Advance Server 2.1. However, now that Red Hat has effectively separated their distributions into a 'consumer' (Red Hat 8,9, etc) and 'enterprise' (Red Hat Adv. Server 2.x, etc), we aren't sure which version we want to adopt. A Red Hat salesman recently told us that the 'consumer' version of Red Hat was mostly for hackers and hobbyists who weren't concerned about stability and wanted the most up-to-date software, while the 'enterprise' version would be more stable and have a five-year product lifetime. As a long time Linux system administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version. After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough in-house talent to not need Red Hat support. Why would we ever need or care about a five-year product lifetime? Am I wrong, and if so, could you set us straight? We'd be interested to know what other large organizations have decided to do."

11 of 710 comments (clear)

  1. I reccomend... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Debian. It's the best "Red Hat" out there.

  2. I'm more worried about... by Binestar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wearing a Red Shirt while on the enterprise.

    Oh wait, nevermind...

    --
    Do you Gentoo!?
    1. Re:I'm more worried about... by tekunokurato · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't know if you wrote that or not, but it's the worst statistical analysis ever! They cite the number of crew who died and the percentage of those who wore red shirts, but they don't say how that relates to the total percentage of crewmembers who wear red shirts, or the total percentage of away team members who wear red shirts, or even what percentage of red shirt wearers actually die! It could be that everyone wears red shirts and the only people who don't happen to be the same 28 that died who weren't wearing red shirts, making red shirts have a lower correlation with death than any other type of shirt! Such irrelevant data...

      --
      Read jack phelps dot net
    2. Re:I'm more worried about... by micromoog · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's a 97.25% chance that you're a dork.

    3. Re:I'm more worried about... by confused+one · · Score: 1, Funny
      But... I am wearing a red shirt...

  3. Neither by Surak · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should choose neither! There is no Red Hat Advanced Server! They have taken all of their enterprise server capabilities from our product! We have sued the Red Hat Infadels out of existence! You will all be running SCO Unix soon!

    -- SCO Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

    --
    My journal has hot /. gossip.
    1. Re:Neither by wfberg · · Score: 3, Funny

      You should choose neither! There is no Red Hat Advanced Server! They have taken all of their enterprise server capabilities from our product! We have sued the Red Hat Infadels out of existence! You will all be running SCO Unix soon!


      OK, who let loose the debian zealot? What the.. SCO? Who are they? Am I missing something?
      --
      SCO employee? Check out the bounty
  4. GRRRRRRRR..... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 4, Funny



    As one who works somewhere where the pointy haired idiots don't even want to hear the word Linux, I would kill to have your problems.

    Quit whining and pick one you lucky little bastard.

    --
    "A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
    GeneralEmergency
  5. Re:Why bother at all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, zero chance of bad data. Same goes for my dos 3.3 disks that came with the stoned virus pre-installed, or MS accidentally infecting foreign cd's of w2k with nimda?

  6. Uhh, Redhat? Are you insane!??!! by gosand · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why on earth would you choose RedHat? Haven't you read this ?

    --

    My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.

  7. Re:What My Organization Did: by rkz · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think suggesting debian canceled out any resentment caused by suggesting windows.

    Typing FREEbsd instead of FreeBSD got it modded up because the Linux zeolots just wanted to annoy the BSD fans.

    heres a fun thing to try.. post an informative comment on apple.slashdot.org but use MACs instead of Macs, that really pisses people off!

    --
    There is no god