[Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
- From: gurukumara@xxxxxxxxx (Kumara Guru)
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:36:00 +0530
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
?I can see that that Shri Rahul Sundaram has aptly answered to this query.
If the 10-year support cycle interests you, RHEL is not the lone
provider; SUSE Linux Enterprise also provides a comparable 10-year
support life-cycle.
http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/extended_lifecycle_support/
(quick illustration:
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/sites/dag.wieers.com.blog/files/rhel-business-continuity.png
)
The point is, a production environment runs long after its deployment.
I know of clipper and foxpro production systems running to date (and
fate) to this day.
The original poster was referring to the LAMP stack.
I can understand organizations holding on to their old proprietary
solutions for ages (like IE6 and Active-X based Intranet apps).
I can even understand people not upgrading their email servers as
SMTP, POP or IMAP may not see radical changes.
But why should the dynamically changing nature of *Open* Web
technologies be limited by stale deployments?
I for one, would really not want to limit myself to an age old MySQL
server, when a newer release would greatly enhance the scalability of
my web application. Nor would I want to miss a significant upgrade to
PHP features in the name of maintaining stability. Just compare how
the web was 5 years ago and how much it has evolved now.
If the enterprise wants a 10-year locked-down deployment even for an
Open Web Apps stack, that makes me really sad.
I was under the impression that only proprietary, commercial products
lock down their customers and make upgrades a costly affair.
Regards,
Kumaraguru
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