Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 19:09 UTC
"Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should be no surprise since Red Hat now owns lead KVM vendor Qumranet."
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2005-07-24
I disagree. Because the core problem is that Red Hat made very explicit promises to its customers, and then just arbitrarily broke them because it worked out better for their business model. Sounds like that same thing we point fingers at proprietary vendors for doing. If they had announced, ahead of the 5.0 release that "Hey, we're going to go longer on the 6.0 release cycle", that would be one thing. But they didn't. Last I looked, which was not long ago, that same promise was *still* in their sales literature for RHEL5.[1] My customer would *not* have chosen RHEL if they had known what Red Had was going to unilaterally decide to do, for their own business reasons.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/rhel5_overview.pdf
Edited 2009-07-02 14:45 UTC