[RHCE] Red Hat 9.0

[Jeremy Portzer]

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On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:03, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> What is interesting is that the current RHCE policy says that your
> certification becomes expired when it's two major versions old.  So
> anyone who currently has a certification on 7.x will have to re-certify
> on 9 to stay current, unless they plan to revise the policy.  I suspect
> when that policy was drafted they didn't expect that binary
> compatibility would be changing quite as much, thus requiring the 9.0
> release.

Here's a post from a Red Hat employee on another mailing list that
addresses this issue:

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From: 	Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
Reply-To: 	phoebe-list@redhat.com
To: 	phoebe-list@redhat.com
Subject: 	Re: Pre-announcement?
Date: 	24 Mar 2003 17:27:06 -0500

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:21:04PM +0000, iostream@attbi.com wrote:
>
> While I do not see a problem with this policy, people have brought
> up a good point.  RHCE expiration is based on the release cycle of
> the regular RH product, not the Enterprise product.  Surely Red Hat
> will see that the RHCE if of little interest to people outside of
> the business world.  By bringing up the release numbers so quickly,
> you are expiring RHCEs artificially shortly.  Just recommending that
> you put the bug in an ear or two up the chain.  Lets face it,
> Enterprise Linux is still based on 7.x is it not? So why not make
> the RHCE go by Enterprise releases instead?

Red Hat Global Learning Services wasn't left out of the discussions
that resulted in this new direction.  They have a plan developed but
are waiting until we officially launch Red Hat Linux 9 to provide
details.  Please bear with us as we go though this transition.
Cheers,

Matt
msw@redhat.com
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Matt Wilson
Manager, Base Operating Systems
Red Hat, Inc.

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