[dayglored]

> ...for non-prod servers you can always use CentOS, which is the same thing with cosmetic changes minus support. You can save a =lot= of money that way.

You mean I'm not supposed to run CentOS on my production machines? Uh-oh... :-)

[some tech guy]

We run Cents in our (mid-size) colo. It’s fine.

Now we’re transitioning to AWS and using Amazon’s AMIs, which are RHEL/Cents binary compatible. It is *so much cheaper* than physical. We have a direct, fiber, 1gb link to AWS us-east datacenter. This move is sane.

I honestly don’t know why people pay for MS any more. Even SQL Server, previously my fave DB, has gone nuts. 2012 datacenter with the W8 interface? OK, time to change.

This is a big operation, and we’re going MS-free and pure cloud. It’s so *easy* on AWS now.

[zeugma]

You mean I'm not supposed to run CentOS on my production machines? Uh-oh... :-)

HA! You can, but you're on your own buddy!