Telco switches to Ubuntu from RHEL for one reason...

[Matthew Gillen]

David's and Rusty's replies underscore the point I was trying to make
earlier: there isn't one definition of "geared for business", because linux
gets used in such a wide variety of contexts (thanks to it being so damn
useful!).  Telcos will pay a premium so they can have someone to choke,
because they're using it a mission-critical capacity.  Small offices
probably need extremely cheap, esp. if the service being provided by the
linux box is non-essential.

So you're both right ;-)

Rusty wrote:
> I actually work for a company that provides many Telcos ENUM solutions and
> most of them use RHEL or Solaris not because of the usability (or lack there
> of in solaris)  but because they have the ability to pay for support
> contracts and that if something goes wrong they have a throat to choke.
> When they are using something that they do not pay for if the OS crashes a
> server and phone calls stop being routed to the correct locations then they
> cannot go after someone who they are not buying support contracts from.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
> David Kramer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:40 PM
> To: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: Telco switches to Ubuntu from RHEL for one reason...
> 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
>> On 8/8/07, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Can you elaborate on how Fedora is not geared toward businesses?
>> Fedora users cannot purchase official support as they can with Red
>> Hat.  Canonical offers a support program for Ubuntu through their
>> website.
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
> 
> If paid support is so important to business Linux users, then why is 
> CentOS so popular (#13 of 100 at DistroWatch at 550 hits per day this week)?
> 
> At my company we use RHEL when the customer pays for it, Fedora or all 
> other Linux boxen.
> 
> 
> 


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