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On 13/10/2025 21:38, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/13/2025 6:41 AM, David Wade wrote:
>> On 13/10/2025 11:57, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 13/10/2025 02:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Seeing a good long term business for selling proprietary Unix
>>>> for x86-64 require a very good imagination.
>>>
>>> Red Hat do well out of it, although not quite propriety, not quite
>>> open source...
>>>
>> RedHat have worked hard to make it impossible to use their Linux
>> without paying. In addition they do well because in order to comply
>> with many security policies you need supported software.
>>
>> So unless you are the French Gendarmerie, who have their own Linux
>> Distro, you need to pay RedHat for support. Its not cheap
>
> RHEL product management is getting squeezed. The IBM bean counters
> want higher profit. And sale is dropping due to companies moving
> their Linux workload from on-prem RHEL to cloud non-RHEL. So they
> have done some "crazy" stuff to make it harder for RHEL clones.
>
> But RHEL clones still exist. Rocky, Alma, Oracle, Amazon etc..
> Redhat's changes may have reduced compatibility from 100%
> to 99.95%, but my impression is that the industry in general
> consider the compatibility acceptable.
>
> Support is easy. If you need support you pay. Redhat is still
> an obvious choice in that case. But few make that choice, because
> most only provide containers and let the cloud vendor provide
> the host Linux. And they don't want to pay Redhat.
>
> Arne

My former company would only use RHEL

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Chris

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