Re: [SLE] if it ain't broke, don't fix it

Randall R Schulz wrote:

They're not something for which I feel a need, but I'm not responsible for mission-critical operations. When we have significant outages, people lose their jobs. Since we do a lot of on-line business, a down system is lost sales and possibly lost customers. The head honchos at my place take such things very, very seriously.

Also, some applications or servers might only be supported on certain distros or versions.