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by snuxoll
3953 days ago
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Seconded, the support lifetime of Ubuntu makes it woefully inadequate for use in an enterprise environment. I get that the hip startup scene wants the latest and greatest, but I work in the medical industry and rock-solid stability and availability are more important than anything else - we still have a couple Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP systems that we haven't finished decommissioning yet, along with a couple SQL Server 2005 installations. When we made our first major Linux deployment this year there's no way I would have picked anything but RHEL/CentOS, we have critical services running on these systems that will be in use for a long time, and playing the upgrade dance in 5 years even (shorter than it sounds) is not an appealing thought. |
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Given your companies pattern of doing its first deployment of Linux this year, and needing a very long support cycle - I think it's fair to say that you're looking for the equivalent of a traditional UNIX. Slow moving, with lots of stability and strong guarantees on backward compatibility. Red Hat and SUSE focus on that type of "enterprise computing" - they've grown on doing 'UNIX replacement'.
Ubuntu is aimed more at the (as you put it) "hip start-up scene" or at least the area in the technical spectrum that is about new technologies, concepts such as continuous deployment and cloud computing.
The funny thing is most enterprises have a bit of both those types of computing. Some slow-moving "eggs in one basket" services, but also the need for fast-moving innovative areas. So there's room for more than just one sort of distribution.