[nzlug] Stupid question department

[Volker Kuhlmann]

> I manage is exactly this: we found that the cost of trying to backport
> security ourselves would have been vastly higher than the top end
> license cost of a RedHat or SuSE "Enterprise" product.[1]

> [1]  ...and infinitely more than the cost of using Debian or Ubuntu, who
>      do the work to backport fixes for free, and faster than the
>      commercial operations in many cases.

Yes, and in the case of Ubuntu, twice recently you got what you paid
for: broken security "fixes" taking your system down. Speed isn't what
you want most here. You want a fix which a) fixes the security hole, b)
keeps your system running as before, so you can feel confident that the
time you save by using vendor fixes isn't gobbled up by your emergency
repairs. I know that e.g. SUSE does a lot of regression testing before
releasing fixes, which obviously increases release time. Also, at least
SUSE provides the fixes for free (or did you mean specifically Linux
"enterprise" products?), so neither your "faster" nor your "cheaper"
argument applies. Scratch that footnote, the rest of your argumentation
was good.

Volker

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