Comment RedHat Enterprise Network makes it worthwhile here (Score 1) 710
Every site is different, but with declining headcount and an ever increasing number of servers we have found that RHEN makes life a lot easier on us. It's nice to apply the same patch to a couple dozen servers with minimal effort.
I used to love to roll my own for every situation. Then the number of servers climbed faster than my brain could scale. Having a long-lived distro suddenly became important, especially when running expensive third-party apps on them.
Yes, there are other distros that could be made to work. I don't like paying large $$$ for linux, but I do like having support for when we get in a jam. All in all, moving to RedHat enterprise has been the right thing for my shop.
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Help! I'm a techie trapped inside a manager's body!
I used to love to roll my own for every situation. Then the number of servers climbed faster than my brain could scale. Having a long-lived distro suddenly became important, especially when running expensive third-party apps on them.
Yes, there are other distros that could be made to work. I don't like paying large $$$ for linux, but I do like having support for when we get in a jam. All in all, moving to RedHat enterprise has been the right thing for my shop.
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Help! I'm a techie trapped inside a manager's body!
