On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 21:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
First you have to give someone a reason to want to migrate to Fedora. With a planned progression to an enterprise version, that would not really be a migration away from fedora but the expected end point where you are permitted to continue using anything you've contributed or developed for your own use, staying in the same community instead of having all previous work dumped out the window at the end of a cycle. I'll point out again that this is the way Red Hat developed its popularity, although it was probably a mistake to have tried to support every release forever.
Fedora is _not_ enterprise, it is _not_ in its goals, it is _not_ it's target audience. Why would anybody start on Fedora planning to "graduate" to EL?
For exactly the same reason that people used to use RH X.0 versions for development and testing, planning to run their programs on X.2 as both their local development and the distribution mature. That's what made RH popular. And there is no equivalent now that Fedora never matures to a supported stable version.
So, we are talking about doing development on a platform that evolves and represents the latest in open source technology? And we are wanting to deploy on a production ready/stable release? Doesn't the current Fedora for development, and CentOS/RHEL for production not satisfy your need?
I think the only thing missing from your need is a smooth "in-place" upgrade capability?
But how often is development done (for a year or so) that then becomes the actual production system? Would not the production system be installed in parallel as you approached the timeframe for deployment?
--Rob