Look at redhat, we have a terrible relationship with IBM in the European public sector, and now that they’ve bought Redhat, we’re already planning for exits on our JBOSS portfolios in preparation for the inevitable fuck up.
That’s easy to do. It’s like changing the plumbing while the homeowners are at work. If you do it right, no users will notice.
Imagine doing that with the main OS your employees are using.
Maybe you could do it in the tech sector with little effort, but in a sector like mine it would pull the floor out from under thousands of workers who aren’t computer savvy.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but when windows or office breaks I have a phone line directly to Seattle and their incident management will stay with me on priority issues until they are fixed and it’s been like that for the past 25 years.
Stability is everything in enterprise, and everything organisational about Linux is chaos.