[TriLUG] Small Network User Management

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Kevin Sonney wrote:

> I'm still hurt that Red Hat Enterprise Linux didn't even enter into
> the equation. It's a 7.x base with a 5-year lifespan. Hell, you won't
> even have to learn anything new.

$$$

Not to mention, from what I've seen, it buys you nothing in terms of 
performance.  Our Oracle servers actually run a little faster on RH 7.3 
than on RHAS 2.1.  We've also had hardware support issues with RHAS 2.1 
that were not adequately addressed by the standard support contract.

The support aspect of RHAS only becomes significant if you throw a lot 
more money at the premium support contract.  Note that if Tarus paid 
$$$$ for RHAS 2.1 and called up asking about LDAP, he would be asked to 
pay more $$$$ for a better support contract (as you know, Kevin, I know 
first hand about this).

So really the only thing that I can see that RHAS has going for it is 
the 5 year lifespan.  So then why shouldn't he pick Debian which has a 
very long product cycle and none of the costs of RHAS?

In theory, RHAS sounds nice.  In practice, I'm not going to be buying 
any more licenses for it.  I've got three of them running.  Just built 
another server using RH 7.3.

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