Which distro for the enterprise now?

On Jan 29, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Scott H wrote:

> I'm not looking for Linux for free
> (beer). But my company wants to control costs,
> and I can't really suggest going forward with
> RHEL servers at $800+/yr a pop and rolling out
> RHEL WS desktops at $150+/yr subscriptions. What
> are other admins doing? I have my own opinions
> on what I like for my own desktop, and I don't
> need hot-headed religious babble. But I would
> very much like some reasoned discussion on the
> options for business Linux! Thanks very much for
> your comments.

I'm at a similar size company, and I can tell you that after much
consideration we're staying with RHEL on the servers and workstations.
Why? It's a damn good product, it's kept current, it's easy as hell to
update with RHN, and there's a corporate entity supporting it (read:
someone to blame if something goes wrong).

I would encourage you to talk to a Redhat Reseller, because you're
getting raped on that pricing that you mentioned.

(Note: I use gentoo for my personal stuff, because it fits the bill
nicely.)