Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Sep 10 06:52:03 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
I'll preface what I am going to say below by repeating what I've already
said which I thought was quite simple.
"When making a choice to use RHEL the client *did not* first experiment with
or try out Fedora." Period, end of story.
> Did a consultant or in-house employee make the decision? I deploy the
> servers in our company, and the time it would take to learn the details
> of administration on a different distribution is very much a factor.
The customer always makes the decision.
>> Along that line, that has also been the case for other consultants I've
>> talked with. I don't feel my experience is unique.
>
> Consultants don't mind having more billable hours... And they probably
> prefer that the companies paying them have no in-house expertise.
So, your are comparing Consultants with Lawyers? And, no, a good consultant
prefers that the company *does* have in house experience. It makes meeting
much more productive.
>> FWIW, I wouldn't deploy Ubuntu at a large enterprise either.....
>
> What would you deploy that has firefox 2.x OpenOffice 2.2, and other
> current desktop applications?
I have clients using RHELv4 along with firefox 2.x and OpenOffice 2.2. Just
because RHELv4 doesn't come with those application versions doesn't mean one
can't create/maintain a local repository and update efficiently. We are
talking about "large enterprises" with a dedicated IT staff, right?
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