Some of these may be of value to you and others may not.

Here's some reasons.

1.  RHAS is supported by application vendors so you know you won't have to
monkey around very much when installing Oracle, Websphere, Weblogic, etc.
2.  Red HAt will support it for years instead of only for 6 months.  This
means that if your putting something into production you won't have to
retrofit security patches etc. on production machines and allow RH to do
the work for you.
3.  Use the Red HAt Network to install software (payable in a yearly
subscription fee)  This is really what your buying along with support.
4.  Enterprise support.
5.  Kernel tuning for servers instead of workstations.

These are all business decisions and not really technical ones.
Technically RHAS is Red Hat 7.2 with some tweaks.

-Scott

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alan Dayley wrote:

> Had a couple of questions come up about Red Hat Advanced Server, comparing to "regular" Red Hat Linux and other issues.  I figure this is the place to ask.  Maybe some of you have used it already.
>
> 1. It's Linux based so most of it should be Free or Open licensed.  But, is it copyable?  If I want to kick the tires before I buy, can I get a copy from someone or download it from somewhere?
>
> 2. Knowing the power of Linux, I know that standard Red Hat or another distro can do any server operation that I want.  So, what value does Red Hat Advanced Server bring to make me want it over a "regular" distro?  (I have read the marketing speak at the Red Hat site.  I am looking for real world reasons here.)
>
> Alan
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