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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 - MEGATHREAD
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This is going to sound as facetious as my comments about *aaS, but this is actually trying to be serious.
In general, the bigger company is, the more the likely it is that having someone to blame and shout at when something goes wrong is more important than not having any problems in the first place.
Stated differently, large companies generally would prefer something that works 99% of the time and a support contract to fix things for that 1% than a product that's so far worked 100% but doesn't offer any support contract in case it does fail. Obviously, the ideal is to be in that 100% bucket whilst also offering a support contract, but the occasional failure reminds the customer that the support is valuable. Perversely, there's also often a perception that when things break, it shows that they're complicated and so the people maintaining them are even more valuable.
RedHat was one of the earliest model for charging for Linux support, although originally it was literally just support and all their custom changes were also available for free. There was quite a big stink at the time when they shifted to RHEL for enterprise features that they didn't release in the free RedHat, and ultimately that led to their original distribution dying out after CentOS took base RedHat and back-ported almost everything from RHEL to it.
In my experience, most small companies would go with something like CentOS and try to do deal with any problems in-house with their "linux guy" because they've already accounted for paying him in the budget but a support contract is additional expense, but bigger companies take a different view - they've got budget for a certain number of developers because they're needed for feature work or whatever. They have an IT department to deal with provisioning servers and dealing with problems, and they in turn are usually worked pretty hard and so will often pay for support contracts to make their lives easier and can just add it to their budget saying it's a necessary expense, but also when stuff fails, the pressure isn't all on them personally as they can say "yeah, we've got blah company (who are THE EXPERTS) looking at it" and absolve themselves of the responsibilty.
I agree
Or at least ’in-house’ as in dedis with OVH/Hetzner, not always on-premise
I also love how the lack of basically any deals turned this into a general discussion thread
i can't read all that
Wait a sec "only"? how much you spendin' on this idling thing?
TLDR:
Came for deals, got walls of text.
+1
best thing to say and call
@JabJab
Well those things don't get "fixed" easily so you are out of options
66
How long have you had your psychic powers? You're reading my mind.
So, it something like large company pay external contractor(Redhat etc) that take responsiblity when shit happens with their distro, plus support or custom features stuff?
I don't like looking at the number for total cost, but it's... a bit.
At least the first row in my spreadsheet is the header, so it's only 94!
In short, YES
nice to meet your acquaintance
get ready
DAMN
Just took my hourly dose, anyone else need theirs?
Well, you are not the one in need of this with so many idlers
I think I need to sleep to cope.
That's where you're wrong, I always need MOAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR
Woah....
How many servers and avg price ?
Oh he will. $3 off the highest plan one time use. Works, right?
Epic games is running free games giveaway so whoever wants may go and collect them
NAAH
Alright, who can assist me in running a giveaway using the lovely @FAT32 feat? Got little time, but
to give. Dm me.
Can help you if you want.
Do your magic bud. We are gonna enjoy your presence for a few hours only.
Cool, I'll send you a dm