[TriLUG] Red Hat's 12 month policy

[Andrew Phillips]

I agree with Redhat's choice completely from a company standpoint, if
they spend time supporting old OSes it takes away time from supporting
the current set. Microsoft does this, but on a larger time table, but
then again the releases are further apart. Money is a good thing (tm).

When you say "In Production environments" I think is where Redhat is
looking at you not using the customer OS and going with Advanced Server.

Thats my 20 second response ;)

-Andrew

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:01, Greg wrote:
> Hey all.  I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on Red Hat's new
12
> months of support policy for on customer OSes (i.e. not RH Advanced
> Server installations).
> 
> As far as I can tell the end of Errata support for RH 8.0, 7.3, 7.2,
and
> 7.1 is December 13, 2003.  EOL support for 7.0 and 6.2 seems to be
March
> 31, 2002.
> 
> I understand that a company can't support one of it's OSes forever but
> 12 months seems like a tight schedule for new releases.  In production
> environments it's hard enough to stay current with new releases but
with
> on 12 months of support I can see some real issues with having a
> production machine with no support. 
> 
> So, in the end, I'm just trolling for opinions on this out of
curiosity.
> 
> Greg