> I dont expect that this will be any different for any of the
Linux
> companies and volunteer orgs (Debian) in the coming years. Everytime
> there is a new Debian, the security volunteers say they will only
> maintain the old release for 6 months and there is great wailing and
> nashing of teeth about how shitty Debian is.
The difference of course is, Debian offers a stable release life of over
2 years prior. That is hardly as aggravating as making a major migration
potentially twice a year. I think you will find very few orgs willing to
deploy Fedora under those conditions, and even fewer able to justify
paying for RHEL being that it is quite expensive compared to other
options.
That's our point. When you deploy on hundreds of servers, like many of the
consortium members do, there's no chance in heck that we're going to pay a
minimum of $179 (on up to $2500 IIRC) *PER* server. I'd much prefer to
pool resources and distribute the cost.
-Chuck
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