Scientific Linux 6.0 released
Scientific Linux 6.0 released
Posted Mar 5, 2011 19:19 UTC (Sat) by Np237 (guest, #69585)In reply to: Scientific Linux 6.0 released by donbarry
Parent article: Scientific Linux 6.0 released
We went precisely through this in my company. It was very hard to get Debian accepted while the company already had Red Hat as the primary OS for Unix servers. The first attempts were made with Red Hat, with mixed results. Those factors made Debian win:
- A number of motivated people explaining over the benefits to management over the years.
- Money money money; we can do with a team of 10 what a team of 20 would not be able to do with another OS.
- The universal operating system: we can use the *exact* same OS, only with differences in installed packages, for scientific workstations, computing servers, and HPC clusters. Binary compatibility between them saves a lot of money too.
- A number of motivated people explaining over the benefits to management over the years.
- Money money money; we can do with a team of 10 what a team of 20 would not be able to do with another OS.
- The universal operating system: we can use the *exact* same OS, only with differences in installed packages, for scientific workstations, computing servers, and HPC clusters. Binary compatibility between them saves a lot of money too.