[ethbr0]

If you are operating a billion-dollar computer, not using IBM/Redhat is probably a good idea.

At that scale, hiring your own quality support and running open systems is a drop in the bucket.

If you want the full IBM/Redhat experience, then you can even afford to hire 5+ layers of middle management and PMs between you and your engineers.

[dboreham]

> At that scale, hiring your own quality support and running open systems is a drop in the bucket.

"support" doesn't mean reading man pages, it means diagnosing and fixing some intermittent bug in Intel's 10G NIC driver.

[bachmeier]

Also, and this is why you pay Red Hat specifically: Having easy access to the developer that compiled a package, made a particular design decision for the OS, etc.