I’ve worked in two environment where using rhel is common/typical. One was using Centos/ the other RHEL. In both cases you need to understand it from the perspective of middleware.
The Centos place was doing video effects post production. They were using it because it’s a lot easier and saner to orchestrate than Windows. When you’re in the middle of a project using tools that cost tens of thousands of dollars per seat, e.g. nuke https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/nuke#editions per year, you want to know that it’s supported and you are not choosing your operating system on the basis of saving $100 on a licence. From the applications manufacturers point of view, you want very predictable, very stable, very fixed versions so that you are not getting hit with the support requests for changes that you do not have control over.
The RHEL place was a bank. They aren’t interested in the latest trends. They are interested in absolute predictability stability, security certifications and support, especially long term support. RHEL ticks all of those boxes, plus, if you want to run something like oracle or other proprietary applications, you will most likely find it supported on RHEL but unsupported on other distributions.
I’ve worked in two environment where using rhel is common/typical. One was using Centos/ the other RHEL. In both cases you need to understand it from the perspective of middleware.
The Centos place was doing video effects post production. They were using it because it’s a lot easier and saner to orchestrate than Windows. When you’re in the middle of a project using tools that cost tens of thousands of dollars per seat, e.g. nuke https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/nuke#editions per year, you want to know that it’s supported and you are not choosing your operating system on the basis of saving $100 on a licence. From the applications manufacturers point of view, you want very predictable, very stable, very fixed versions so that you are not getting hit with the support requests for changes that you do not have control over.
The RHEL place was a bank. They aren’t interested in the latest trends. They are interested in absolute predictability stability, security certifications and support, especially long term support. RHEL ticks all of those boxes, plus, if you want to run something like oracle or other proprietary applications, you will most likely find it supported on RHEL but unsupported on other distributions.