Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
I&#x27;ve been hearing the &quot;boring&quot; comment a lot lately, and I totally agree. I don&#x27;t want the exciting filesystem (btrfs which just took me for a ride), or the exciting programming language&#x2F;library that will strand me in 6 months with multiple man-years of work.<p>No, what I want is boring. That means everything works as I expect it too, and it doesn&#x27;t create drama every few months when the cool kids decide that the old way of doing things isn&#x27;t cool and rewrite a library i&#x27;ve based my application on or change the syntax of the compiler so my code doesn&#x27;t work.<p>A few years ago, I started challenging people at work when they were trying to pull in the latest language&#x2F;library&#x2F;toolkit, with a simple question. &quot;How does that help our customers&quot;. Sure, I got plenty of the 2&#x2F;3rd order arguments about how making the dev team happy&#x2F;more productive would result in better feature development&#x2F;etc. But I&#x27;ve seen these kinds of changes enough to know that usually these 2nd order affects are crushed by the unseen problems that _ALWAYS_ seem to crop up after your already committed to that new technology. Its truly rare to have a new technology that is so much better than the last that the cost of switching pays for itself. That doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t happen, it just means that the immature crap everyone is yammering about is likely not that technology. Give it a couple years and if it turns out to still be around (and people are still actively switching to it) then its probably good. This mindset has produced a long list of &quot;successful&quot; products that pay the bills and make people happy without making a lot of noise and crashing&#x2F;burning regularly.<p>Bottom line, I will take the old &quot;cruddy&quot; technology with the long list of known problems, to the new cool one with the long list of unknown problems. At least part of that seems to be what RH provides for the opensource community. The old guys that actually fix the bugs, rather than switching to some cool new product.