Re: [SLE] Which Linux?

On 30/03/06, Matthew Stringer <qube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:27, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:

Ah, so this company has no problem shelling out money for MS, but has a
problem with spending on a quality Linux enterprise distro.

Go MS, you have the Money, the Power, the Marketing. When hungry, the
Linux losers will just have to be content they're allowed to smell your
nutritious rich farts.

Makes me sick


We charge more for M$ hosting to cover the costs of the licensing and the
extra administration (virus protection etc) that's involved.

If we started using EL we'd have to increase the prices for our Linux hosting
to cover licenses, this would make our product less competitive.

Matthew


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I'm intrigued by Silviu's dislike of CentOS. After all, SuSE was a
barely discernible clone of Slackware at one time. CentOS is a new,
young distro, who know what it will look like in a few years time? I
do, of course, accept that Silviu is perfectly entitled to feel this
way. I don't though.

Hey, it would be a boring world if we all thought and felt the same :-)

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