Uh, the entire value proposition of RHEL is that Red Hat will backport such patches, supporting customers who don't want to change anything until they move up to the next major release.
That just feels tragic and silly. Probably many of the same types of shops that won't build the automated dev/ops infrastructures and end-to-end integration tests that let people move up stacks and updates rapidly.
I haven't worked at a place that used RHEL in a long time. Unless you use one of their enterprise products like their directory or identity management system, there's no real reason to not use CentOS .. or really anything else for that matter.
Well... a very large portion of the value proposition of CentOS is that Red Hat will backport patches, and that CentOS users will get those patches for free, in case they don't want to change anything until they move up to the next major release.
Some of us don't need -- or want -- the latest and greatest. I want servers that (other than installing updates) just work and don't have to be constantly maintained.
