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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Yes. Red Hat has their work cut out for them, meeting all these commitments. And the Red Hat team does take its promises seriously. Not making commitments that they can't keep is laudable. The 18 to 24 month thing has been implied since about 2.1, I think. But if that is changing, we can live with it. I neglected to mention that we use CentOS. So I try to be careful about criticizing the upstream, which does a damn fine job, even if I really *would* like a middle of the road distro with a 12 month release cycle and 18-24 months of support. (Hey, it's Christmas!)
-Steve
Edited 2008-12-22 21:57 UTC