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

[rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org (Rusty)]

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.

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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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