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How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? – Slashdot

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How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? – Slashdot.

by Paska (801395) Alter Relationship on Sunday October 30, @05:20PM (#37888510) Homepage

CentOS’s release schedule has been really struggling recently. Release 6 was almost edging a 250 day delay over Red Hat.

CentOS have still to announce an official date for 6.1 to be released, which Red Hat released back on May 19th. There is a lot of uncertainty regarding CentOS releases and as such in my opinion makes CentOS not the ideal choice for the enterprise.

Other advantages are Red Hat’s support services and the Red Hat Network (RHN) are second to none. RHN alone is what convinced us to pony up money for licenses.

The gist of the advantages are: better support, quicker updates/security fixes, easier and centralised management of multiple servers with the only disadvantage being a price tag.

Interesting discussion about this over on Slashdot.

Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

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Gluster, which was founded in 2005, has its R&D and engineering facility in Bangalore, India, while its leadership team resides in California. The company’s flagship technology is GlusterFS, which allows an enterprise to cluster large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a centrally accessible and managed and storage pool. It names Pandora, Box.net and Samsung among its customers.

via Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster.

How Linux mastered Wall Street

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Others just use off-the-shelf distributions and pay consultants to tweak the settings for maximum performance. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now the dominant Linux distribution among exchanges, Lameter said. Red Hat counts among its customers the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Eurex derivative exchange and Philippine Stock Exchange.

via How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld.