On Thu, 29 May 2003, Jerry.Ekegren at thrivent.com wrote: > Is anyone using Red Hat 8 in a large corporation as a production HTTP > and/or Edge server. We are looking at using Linux as our HTTP and > Edge servers, currently using AIX, but are trying to find a more > reasonable alternative than using Red Hat ES at $799 per server or AS > at $1499 per server. Any user experiences would be greatly > appreciated. Jerry, The consumer (7.x/8.x/9) releases of RedHat will work just fine for a server (they have everything you need, just like AS/ES); the only problem is getting long-term security updates for them. RedHat recently changed their policies to 'encourage' people to go to their enterprise products for servers - they are discontinuing support for their non-enterprise distributions one year after the initial release. So, RedHat 7.x-8.0 will not be supported any longer on Dec 31, 2003, and support for RedHat 9 ends on April 30, 2004. What this means is that after that point, you'll have to roll your own security fixes, or find someone else to do it for you. We roll a customized version of 7.3 out to our customers still, and are just going to maintain the security updates ourselves. If you want a distribution that'll always be easily updateable and free, you could go Debian.. apt rules. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list