The (Supported on/Certified For) RH Linux is totally up to the Software House.
It is not due to any underhanded efforts by Red Hat.
Having worked in a support environment It is easy for me to see that any OS Stipulation is purely to increase the chance that a given software product will work..
How many people ran Oracle for SCO on their Linux Boxen whilst there was no Oracle on Linux??
Did these guys expect support?
Anyone rung up MS to complain that word isn't stable under WINE/WABI??
We are all aware that application support is basically about troubleshooting..
The first step in ANY trouble shooting exercise is REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VARIABLES.
Anyone care to guess the number of variables that a different distribution will add to the equation.
Also don't forget that most application support people are not *nix GURUS
So whilst the RH Only is a pain.. It's not necesarily RH's fault.
If Redhat were after a proprietary solution they would have picked *BSD as the base not Linux
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The (Supported on/Certified For) RH Linux is totally up to the Software House.
It is not due to any underhanded efforts by Red Hat.
Having worked in a support environment It is easy for me to see that any OS Stipulation is purely to increase the chance that a given software product will work..
How many people ran Oracle for SCO on their Linux Boxen whilst there was no Oracle on Linux??
Did these guys expect support?
Anyone rung up MS to complain that word isn't stable under WINE/WABI??
We are all aware that application support is basically about troubleshooting..
The first step in ANY trouble shooting exercise is
REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VARIABLES.
Anyone care to guess the number of variables that a different distribution will add to the equation.
Also don't forget that most application support people are not *nix GURUS
So whilst the RH Only is a pain.. It's not necesarily RH's fault.
If Redhat were after a proprietary solution they would have picked *BSD as the base not Linux