Linked by Rahul on Mon 22nd Dec 2008 09:13 UTC
Right after the recent news that Red Hat is offering a new subscription for mission critical deployment that extends the life-cycle for up to 10 years, Red Hat has announced another, that allows the customers to stay in a single point release for up to eighteen months and continue to get updates and support that point release. Matt Asay writes: "Red Hat has set the standard for world class software support, consistently earning top marks with CIOs for its efforts. On Thursday, however, Red Hat outdid itself, introducing a new product support plan called Extended Update Support. In a nutshell, Extended Update Support enables customers to run their mission-critical systems for longer stretches of time without having to take production systems offline to update them."
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As far as RHEL release schedules go, your guess is as good as mine since I can only go with publicly available information but it appears that release schedules are only very roughly time based and more determined by customer demand and updates in the point releases has been deemed sufficient till whenever Red Hat gets to a do a new release.
With additional subscriptions based on same product which extends updates for a point release as well as extending the lifecyle itself to 10 years, there is enough work within a release to not spread the effort too thin between multiple releases. Seems sensible to me but I am not a neutral source or worse,a industry analyst ;-). If you are a customer with different opinions, get in touch with your point of contact and let them know.
Edited 2008-12-22 21:40 UTC