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

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:37:24 pm Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Eric C <eric-yrHdaQSNc4gdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > oh lord.  that comment is useless.  was it apt that
> > blew his mind?
>
> We've had this discussion before.  Ubuntu now offers commercial
> packages in their hosted repositories for businesses.  Yes, you can do
> this now...
>
> $ sudo aptitude install vmware-server zimbra sun-java6-jdk...
>
> You can't do that on Fedora/RHEL.

True in the Fedora case, and at least partially false in the RHEL case. Red 
Hat has long had at least some of those bits in the rhel supplementary RHN 
channel and/or on the RHEL supplementary CD.

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Jarod Wilson
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