[ale] Political but on topic... How Team Obama's tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust

[chris.ricker at gmail.com (Chris Ricker)]

On 11/20/12 9:09 PM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:15:09AM +0000, simontek at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Its amazing that they used ubuntu. Its hard to the gov't to use anything
>> except rhel. You have no idea what it took to start migrating our project
>> to rhel 6 from rhel 5.
> Campaigns are not the government, even when they are a campaign for a
> currently elected official.
And http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certifications.html

is a good entry-page summary into why the US government uses RHEL, not 
Ubuntu. Canonical would have to invest in obtaining the relevant certs 
for Ubuntu to start getting government traction