Is RedHat really such a good distro for corporate needs, or is it merely that it has a big name so everyone buys it?
well, yes and no. in my case the only way i could get a linux box into my company was on the down low. which means, i had to build a linux box ( in this case a throwaway P2 running mandrake 7.2), move my whole intranet to it, and then after a couple of months explain to my boss that the reason our intranet hadn't crashed lately is because it was no longer on the lotus domino box.
the problem i'm running into now is that i have to make my mandrake box talk to the db2 database on our as400 box and ibm tech support only speaks redhat and suse (although they've so far been pretty good about working with my mandrake box).
the bottom line is that running redhat makes it easier to work with big middleware comapnies (like IBM), not necesarily because they're better, but because of the name. either way, a uniform file system/package system/whatever makes it easier to sell linux to your boss.
where the hell has the LSB been? when i first got into linux as a newbie (about 2 - 3 years ago) the linux standards base seemed to offer a real hope for universal package management. installing new packages can be a special type of hell for a newb first coming into linux, but it seemed to just fall off my radar and i've since resigned myself to playing rpm russian roulette (i should probably switch to deb, but at this point i'm ready to buy a new mac).
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actually, it looks like a cross between an emate and a tandy model 100. it'll be interesting to see if it finds a niche.
Is RedHat really such a good distro for corporate needs, or is it merely that it has a big name so everyone buys it?
well, yes and no. in my case the only way i could get a linux box into my company was on the down low. which means, i had to build a linux box ( in this case a throwaway P2 running mandrake 7.2), move my whole intranet to it, and then after a couple of months explain to my boss that the reason our intranet hadn't crashed lately is because it was no longer on the lotus domino box.
the problem i'm running into now is that i have to make my mandrake box talk to the db2 database on our as400 box and ibm tech support only speaks redhat and suse (although they've so far been pretty good about working with my mandrake box).
the bottom line is that running redhat makes it easier to work with big middleware comapnies (like IBM), not necesarily because they're better, but because of the name. either way, a uniform file system/package system/whatever makes it easier to sell linux to your boss.
where the hell has the LSB been? when i first got into linux as a newbie (about 2 - 3 years ago) the linux standards base seemed to offer a real hope for universal package management. installing new packages can be a special type of hell for a newb first coming into linux, but it seemed to just fall off my radar and i've since resigned myself to playing rpm russian roulette (i should probably switch to deb, but at this point i'm ready to buy a new mac).