On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:33:39AM +0200, Poison Bit wrote: > In my experience: if a company does not perform operative system > upgrades, the company does not have more than 5 years and does not > understand how open source, and in special linux kernel, works. I'm certain I can name several large companies that have been around for more than 5 years and whose services you rely on that do not perform os upgrades on hardware once it enters production. > You can migrate data between service versions or environments, have > rollbacks, backups and etc. Across a fleet of 15000 hosts? With no downtime? Without impacting the schedule of whatever software you actually run on these hosts? > The monolitic "one server, all services, never upgrade" maybe just an > architecture issue, totally outside of the Debian issues. That's not what I'm describing at all. Those places can and should upgrade. I'm talking 1 service to 1 host, multiplied by thousands. These are the companies that want LTS support. noah
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