Re:“Long term support” Unixes and versions of software in them
by necovek on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:03AM
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> What the customer wants here is impossible, but some customers (larger enterprises in particular) will pay handsomely for you to try. Why is it impossible? Change is the one constant in our universe. Long after there is no consciousness left to perceive it, change will continue.
Companies (and their budgets) like predictability.
Sure, it's unavoidable that you'll have to upgrade or abandon certain software, but it's an altogether different ballgame when you know exactly when that's coming.
If I know I've got guaranteed security fixes in whatever is installed on my system for 5 or 10 years, it means I only have to do the work once every 5 or 10 years.
That's service being provided, and I'd like to test that hypothesis sometime with starting a company to support your dependencies for a monthly fee.
Existence of enterprise Linuxes like RHEL and SUSE offering confirms the market is there, the biggest question is if the overlap of those willing to subscribe to such a model matches those who want this type of predictability. You'd be basically paying for distribution-type development focused on packages you need.
Companies (and their budgets) like predictability.
Sure, it's unavoidable that you'll have to upgrade or abandon certain software, but it's an altogether different ballgame when you know exactly when that's coming.
If I know I've got guaranteed security fixes in whatever is installed on my system for 5 or 10 years, it means I only have to do the work once every 5 or 10 years.
That's service being provided, and I'd like to test that hypothesis sometime with starting a company to support your dependencies for a monthly fee.
Existence of enterprise Linuxes like RHEL and SUSE offering confirms the market is there, the biggest question is if the overlap of those willing to subscribe to such a model matches those who want this type of predictability. You'd be basically paying for distribution-type development focused on packages you need.