[WBEL-users] WBEL Vs Centos ? :-S

[NICK]

Hi,

I work for a small company whom are just "too poor" to buy RHEL :-(

I'm looking to upgrade from RH9 and would like to get some users opinion.

I have 6 commercial servers that need upgrading, I'm concerned about
security (as ones a webserver).... and the recent issue about timely
updates... although I think that's kinda cleared up now... right ?

I respect that WBEL is run by a library, and they are free to do what
they wish, and think they are doing some great work by trying to fill
the gap that redhat made.

My concern about upgrading is that one member of the WBEL-User list
said this.....

"My 2p worth. I still run Wbel myself on a few machines. None of which
run in Commercial Environments. I install Wbel no more. "

which raises they question, should i install WBEL ?

After some research I found an alternative (Centos), but I realise
that they are an online community, there's nothing "physically"
keeping them together or working.... Hence ... if their updates are
more timely now, who knows that the project will even exist in a years
time, and if I'm gonna have to upgrade in a years time I might as well
use Fedora ;-)

Yet, a library ensures that the project is likely to stay alive,  You
need somewhere to keep books right ? But that said surely their
concern is their business, not supporting the WBEL community.

Please can I have some feedback / thoughts ?

Since I don't like freeloading, and I guess this mail sounds like a
freeloader whinge, once we've upgraded; we'd be happy to give
something back to the community... ftp mirror maybe, or if someone
could offer some advise we could "respin" some updates !  ;-)

Many Thanks
Nick