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BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com> writes:

> Unless my understanding is wrong...
>
> The idea of 'enterprise-level' packages with respect to Linux is more
> or less stable packages over a long time period.

Why? Is it not be more a matter of scalability than stability? So that,
for example, an enterprise level database application might need to
handle tables with tens of millions of rows and thousands of
transactions per second. Or a file or email server be able to handle
tens of thousands of user accounts etc.