Posted on 08/11/2005 5:38:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Its not the 100-500 Dollars: I pay RedHat good money for licenses to use there stuff... Could I roll my own distro and use that on our servers? Sure! If I did, however, roll my own then I would have to roll patches, or trust someone else who I have no acceptable contract with.
The last time I used free linux in my data center seriously was Redhat8 which, RH change in licensing cost more but compared to the hardware and other cost *my salary* its a small chunk. Once in a while I set up a fedora box to see whats down the pipe for Redhat (I used it for a kernel 2.6 preview, and now XEN)..
If tomorrow RedHat failed to meet their obligations under a contract I could tell them goodbye and move over to novell. With probably a 6 month migration for the Linux systems I have to allow proper testing of applications (in a pinch I could roll our apps over a weekend (I have already tested it).
I run Gentoo to operate our mail and internet servers. Never had a even a hint of a problem. I also have a few workstations running Gentoo and OpenOffice, and they serve their purpose very well. For me, it's not a matter of choosing between MS and Linux. My IT budget is so tight that it's Linux or nothing. In that instance, Open Source serves the purpose very well. I still have XP running on 90% of my workstations and Server 2003 running on my server for enterprise apps, and wouldn't dream of switching over to Linux for that. It's the light duty stuff that Linux is both safe and cheap to run. A workstation to write documents, surf the internet, get email...a mail server to route messages to the proper places...a webserver to host ftp files.....things like that.
Tell that to Oracle, BEA, and Veritas all of who use their enterprise level stuff on Linux..
Oh yeah? Well then your house wants to be free too, google-commies.
Who said that? Only intellectually and morally bankrupt people put words into other peoples' mouths.
One question:
Do you still beat your wife?
Comrade Richard Stallman, the Marxist founder of the free software movement.
Is Google still pirating books?
Do you think I own Google or something?
Go back on your meds like your shrink keeps telling you.
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