it sounds like good newsDepends how you look at it if you administred you're 100-200 linux boxes (if not more) in you're university casually applying the errata redhat gave out to 7.3 you're life is goinf to be a bit more difficult now.
Between the lines (and allready when RedHat9 was unveiled) the major change between business plans is thae change to 6 months development cycles for rhl releases and providing a year of erratas from that point.
This put's middle - high level IT companies in a problem they don't like the ground shaking under their feet and RedHat is offering 3-5 years of stability and erratas on their Enterprise Linux line of products.
So what do you do keep riding the rollercoaster or purchase Enterprise Linux.
Even if you look at the beta announcment you'll find it more "cool"/"geeky"/"UberHax0r" kind of mail but it gets serious in the end-
what they are trying to do is give you the impression that if you want production level stability go for the enterprise because this is geekland!
Their also levreging the community in a smart way passing the "resonsibility" for the packages means less manpower hours integrating the software into their rpms and shifting QA and validation towards the Enterprise versions and away from rhl.
So if you're a opensource advogate just dying for more recognition and to lay you're code upon the world - it's great news.
But if you're the ordinary sysadmin Joe Either start paying for you're linux distro or you're going to have to work a bit more now.
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