Enterprise distributions suck and free software rules

true, although according the 'prevailing wisdom' both selecting top tier vendors and going with enterprise kernels are choices that are supposed to increase reliability

that being said, I used the kernel.org kernel on the top tier boxes for a few years before deciding that they didn't provide any additional reliability.

as for the argument that reliability means different things, in the case I am referring to, reliability is measured and defined by the same people.