We use SL 5.10 and SL6.4 in a commercial company.
The stability is the obvious reason.   We do not want or need the latest 
features that clutter the landscape.

If SL were to link up with or even consider Fedora - we would abandon it.  

No one in their right mind would use a "sand box" as quoted by a RH Engineer 
for a critical endeavor.   It is to allow freedom of development of SW only.
If you ever complained about an application in Fedora all you get is a ration 
of crap from developers who are using it for a school project.
We used to point out expansion or correction to some Fedora projects but were 
told to go away & we did.

We use SL6.4 for a lot of reduction of atmospheric and seismic data.  This is 
serious stuff with serious money behind it.  Some problems run for many days.

If you need a stable system where you can depend on it and concentrate on you 
project then SL is what you need.

Larry Linder

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 7:28 pm, Jean-Victor Côté wrote:
> They have included interesting IDEs:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin Collaboration between the
> two projects might prove fruitful, who knows?
>
>
> Jean-Victor Côté, M.Sc.(Sciences économiques), (CPA, CMA), Post MBA
> J'ai aussi passé d'autres examens, dont les examens CFA.
> J'ai un profil Viadeo sommaire:
> http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/jean-victor.cote I also have a LinkedIn
> profile:
> http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2367003&trk=tab_pro