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

[David Kramer]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On 8/8/07, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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)?
> 
> I can't speculate why everyone else chooses CentOS, but I can tell you
> why my boss wanted it over Ubuntu for some of our servers.  His
> reasoning was that other system administrators would not have the
> skill set to manage the Ubuntu servers.  So, in this case, the
> decision had nothing to do with paid support, but rather administrator
> savvy-ness.
> 
> You might have missed that Ubuntu is #1 on distrowatch though :-)

A list that records both consumer and business purchases.  The fact that 
Ubuntu is listed above CentOS is no surprise, and no reflection of its 
popularity in the business world alone.

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