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Agreed, however I've been feeling for a while that Red Hat is becoming the new Solaris. Everything takes twice as long and is a couple revs out of date when compared to other distros.

I've been struggling to find the value in their services to justify this trade off.

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Without getting into a distro debate, the immediate justification for RHEL to Enterprises is that there's somebody to blame if it doesn't work, and that there's a vendor to call if their generally mediocre onsite staff can't solve a problem.

Compared to Solaris, it's cheaper, package management is much easier, and it has all the Linuxy goodness that corporations feel make them more agile.

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