[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[John Dallman]

In article <shr1le$ano$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> And regarding OS then a lot of places prefer CentOS/RockyLinux
> over RHEL for that type of servers, which to me indicate that
> they are very price sensitive.

It's a bit subtler than that, if my employers are any example. They have
a few thousand Linux machines, which are mostly for software development
and testing, since they're an ISV. Only a small proportion are used as
servers. RHEL support on thousands of machines is quite a lot of money,
and you don't have to be very price sensitive to notice that. 

They have enough sysadmins to allow them to solve most of their own Linux
problems. So they mostly use CentOS and its equivalents. RHEL is
theoretically free for development work, but the license admin is onerous
enough that an entirely free distribution is preferable. 

John