correct me if I'm wrong (I've never used it) but was satellite not a proxy/up2date server to sit in your server room to feed updates to servers without net connectivity?if so will this not be getting replaced with some sort of yum repository for rhel5? thus losing the need to release any source code. yum repos seemed quite easy to setup for fedora core 4/5/6...
There were two products for doing that, a RHN proxy server which was essentially the yum repositories you speak of. RHN Satellite is a productized version of rhn.redhat.com, it's all of the web application for tracking system/package status.
If they do open source it, I suspect it may not hit them where it hurts (immediately) since you'd still likely have to pay to connect to RHN for the errata updates to sync. You'd also probably still pay for support of the product and for support of RHEL in general.
In the long term, it seems like an open sourced RHN would give the other distributors a leg up in creating a centralized system management application (the ubuntu family in particular could use one).
Hugh
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