Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution? [LWN.net]

Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution?

Posted Oct 9, 2003 17:57 UTC (Thu) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306)
In reply to: Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution? by Max.Hyre
Parent article: An Evening with Bruce Perens

I can understand that large organizations can cope with debconf; but there are other markeds for an Enterprise level servers, eg. the SOHO market. Those markets needs an easy to use installer with sensible package choices.

I have never used apt-get myself, but I must agree that it sounds like a good choice for the day-to-day maintenance needs.

I think that one of the reasons that Oracle et.al. don't certifiy against "stable" is that it is too conservative (IMHO).

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Decent installer non-issue for enterprise distribution?

Posted Oct 11, 2003 17:45 UTC (Sat) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Oracle doesn't certify against stable because to have Oracle certify you, they need support staff from your company in their call centers. You, the OS vendor, have to pay for this. Even if Debian had the money, it would be a violation of the Social Contract to spend it on overpriced support staff for a proprietary company.