On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:50:07AM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote:
> Ely Levy wrote:
> 
> >it sounds like good news
> > 
> >
> Depends how you look at it if you administred you're 100-200 linux boxes 
> (if not more) in you're university casually applying the errata redhat 
> gave out to 7.3 you're life is goinf to be a bit more difficult now.
> Between the lines (and allready when RedHat9 was unveiled) the major 
> change between business plans is thae change to 6 months development 
> cycles for rhl releases and providing a year of erratas from that point.
> This put's middle - high level IT companies in a problem they don't like 
> the ground shaking under their feet and RedHat is offering 3-5 years of 
> stability and erratas on their Enterprise Linux line of products.
> So what do you do keep riding the rollercoaster or purchase Enterprise 
> Linux.

Note that other companies are allowed to package the same basic RHL
packages and offer their own support contract for more than 1 year
(though RedHat owns the RedHat trademark, so a different name will
be chosen.)

RedHat's Enterprise products as they are cost too much for quite a few
admins.

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