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Plenty, LTS is a big factor and a lot of companies now got burned with CentOS.

LTS is key because migrating OS and recalibrating everything is expensive as fuck for large organizations. As the amount of manhours needed to migrate everything, retest and retool everything and retain and update all your internal documentation is stupendous.

Also having real support for a product is worth its weight in gold in a corporate environment because it allows you to offload responsibilities when stuff breaks.



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