Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gordan Bobic
Subject Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 00b601c0ffb1$04c53060$800010ac@localdomain
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In response to Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL  (Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com>)
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> > > Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's
not
> facing
> > > the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site,
where
> RedHat
> > > just doesn't cut it.
> >
> > That claim is bogus. Red Hat Linux is the number one linux by far
in
> > enterprise deployments.
>
>   Well, Microsoft has an even greater installed base in enterprise
> deployments, so NT must be better than Linux....
>
>   Being #1 doesn't make you the best.

You've hit a nail on the head there.

However, FORTUNATELY, RH base their products on something that's
stable to begin with, so as long as they stick with the strategy of
using clean source and do everything else with patches, I think the
amount they can go wrong by is fairly seriously limited.

Regards.

Gordan



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