In about 2007, we bought our first Red Hat to migrate functionality away from HP-UX. We eventually rolled the license that we purchased on a credit card into the corporate account.
In about 2009, "yum update" stopped working, and I called Red Hat, where I learned that corporate had terminated the licensing. Investigating, they advised me to run the Oracle converter, and resume pulling patches.
In 2013, corporate again switched to Red Hat. I did not. Corporate has been audited. I have not.
I'm using some btrfs loopback mounts with the UEK, and sales calls with Red Hat expressed extreme distaste for this.
w/r/t btrfs - I recall when it was deprecated from tech preview in RHEL. I know some users really, really wanted it and it keeps popping up - Fedora is now using it, but I am skeptical that it's going to make it into RHEL anytime soon given that it was in RHEL as a tech preview and then pulled. I know SUSE supports it, I have a NAS that uses it, but seems like it's been found to be wanting by some of the folks who decide what gets into RHEL and doesn't.
In about 2007, we bought our first Red Hat to migrate functionality away from HP-UX. We eventually rolled the license that we purchased on a credit card into the corporate account.
In about 2009, "yum update" stopped working, and I called Red Hat, where I learned that corporate had terminated the licensing. Investigating, they advised me to run the Oracle converter, and resume pulling patches.
In 2013, corporate again switched to Red Hat. I did not. Corporate has been audited. I have not.
I'm using some btrfs loopback mounts with the UEK, and sales calls with Red Hat expressed extreme distaste for this.
At this point, why would I go back?