I just saw that RedHat is changing the way they are running the CentOS project. I’m not a fan of this and it seems like a money grab. I’ve used CentOS where I needed the equivalent of RHEL but didn’t need support (e.g. experimentation, testing, etc.) I do have a RHEL Developer Subscription, so I could use the real McCoy for some of this testing, but it just isn’t as convenient in some cases.
Although I lean towards Ubuntu for most things, there are many applications (e.g. SAP) that are designed for RHEL (or SLES) and CentOS as it currently exists fits my no-support-required use-case perfectly.
I used to very positive feelings about RedHat (both the company and the OS) and this sort of transparent money grab definitely lowers them from a company that I admired in many ways to just another vendor. I guess getting aquired by IBM tends to do that to you.