Les Mikesell wrote: I'll preface what I am going to say below by repeating what I've already said which I thought was quite simple. "When making a choice to use RHEL the client *did not* first experiment with or try out Fedora." Period, end of story. > Did a consultant or in-house employee make the decision? I deploy the > servers in our company, and the time it would take to learn the details > of administration on a different distribution is very much a factor. The customer always makes the decision. >> Along that line, that has also been the case for other consultants I've >> talked with. I don't feel my experience is unique. > > Consultants don't mind having more billable hours... And they probably > prefer that the companies paying them have no in-house expertise. So, your are comparing Consultants with Lawyers? And, no, a good consultant prefers that the company *does* have in house experience. It makes meeting much more productive. >> FWIW, I wouldn't deploy Ubuntu at a large enterprise either..... > > What would you deploy that has firefox 2.x OpenOffice 2.2, and other > current desktop applications? I have clients using RHELv4 along with firefox 2.x and OpenOffice 2.2. Just because RHELv4 doesn't come with those application versions doesn't mean one can't create/maintain a local repository and update efficiently. We are talking about "large enterprises" with a dedicated IT staff, right?
