[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[James Taylor]

Just an added note about meeting DoD requirements.
SUSE and redHat spend a lot of time upfront baking DoD security specifications into each of their releases before they are allowed out the door.
Government, and most commercial customers care about that. 
I don’t always use commercial versions of linux for customer solutions, but when I'm working with clients in to regulated spaces, that doesn’t fly far.
-jt
 

> On Oct 29, 2018, at 9:33 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, and I forgot to mention:  Support for LONG term releases, backporting of fixes, and rigid change control.
> For example:  Want to upgrade from version 12.2 to version 12.3?  Better start the approval process a year early...  document your testing plan, provide a tested backout plan, have adequate testing documented and verified by the proper people, pass the change control approval process to go into a limited subset of test systems....wait the required time for full deployment to test systems....wait the required time for production rollout.
> Or:  Want to apply an in-the-wild zero day exploit patch? Follow a slightly faster variation of the above process.
> 
> The Debian or Ubuntu model will not pass the change control requirements.  These are the reasons that SUSE and Red Hat backport fixes into an old version of a package for seven+ years, instead of incrementing the version.  That is why SUSE is still patching PHP 5.3.x on SLES 11 SP4.
> 
> Allen B.

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