Having (or better, limiting yourself to) a single vendor is not standardization at all, in my opinion. I'm not talking about having a single vendor in a single company at a certain point in time - that's good, doing differently is hard to manage (since usually the sysadmin team is really too small).

I'm talking about having all the sysadmin jobs in my area using Linux as a synonym for Red Hat Linux.

> Having a single vendor is not standardization at all

It's the only standardization that you're going to get in enterprise Linux and it's no different than targeting Windows.

> I'm talking about having all the sysadmin jobs in my area using Linux as a synonym for Red Hat Linux.

And the problem with that is?

I hope that's not the only standardization we will get, since I don't really like vendor lock-ins (talking about Windows...) and I think we need something better than that.

Silly me? I know. And still I don't like it.

Maybe I am still too young. :)

More standardization, less complication.