you’d be surprised how many comps use RHEL just for the “I’m completely fucked and I need corporate level support” or “we need a data center completely off the rack” or “we wanna throw money at this problem” or “we need somebody to sue or point our finger at if we get majorly fucked” or “we need an OS that meets compliance” use cases. many comps won’t just use some random community built OS to run their shit regardless of the community support. at the end of the day, many corporations with very complex requirements don’t have many legitimate data center OS options available.
Last place I worked was all of the above and ran the jankiest proprietary server software on a swarm of Windows Server VMs for those exact reasons. There was also the reason of “how are we going to find an admin that knows both Windows and Linux around here? They’ll be impossible to replace” and while yes it was a bank serving primarily farmers in a county with less than 50,000 people, I’m still skeptical that’s a good reason to run such a messy stack
you’d be surprised how many comps use RHEL just for the “I’m completely fucked and I need corporate level support” or “we need a data center completely off the rack” or “we wanna throw money at this problem” or “we need somebody to sue or point our finger at if we get majorly fucked” or “we need an OS that meets compliance” use cases. many comps won’t just use some random community built OS to run their shit regardless of the community support. at the end of the day, many corporations with very complex requirements don’t have many legitimate data center OS options available.
Last place I worked was all of the above and ran the jankiest proprietary server software on a swarm of Windows Server VMs for those exact reasons. There was also the reason of “how are we going to find an admin that knows both Windows and Linux around here? They’ll be impossible to replace” and while yes it was a bank serving primarily farmers in a county with less than 50,000 people, I’m still skeptical that’s a good reason to run such a messy stack