On Wednesday 15 October 2003 17:12, Larry Gilson wrote: > Meaning someone who purchases Enterprise products. There are a lot > of RH installations in the world. I can certainly understand that > development and updates for the non-RHEL products are a sieve > financially. I just think it is irresponsible to just drop security > and product updates without a planned phase-out.
They announced the phase out at least a year ago; perhaps longer. > Just dropping all > support at the end of April, which I have not seen a notice on, is > not a good decision. They started the game of free distros. If they > can not politely bow out with such a huge install base, I would > seriously consider ever purchasing RHEL. As I write above, they made the announcement some time ago; I don't know why you didn't see it. > Well then, they are not really ending support. They are ending > *free* support. This at least makes more sense. However, I still > think a better and published phase-out is appropriate. They're also ending paid support (RHN) for the "Consumer" operating systems. "Consumer" is a better term than free; many of us have paid for them. They've made it clear they're ending paid support as well, for these operating systems. > With the exception you mentioned above, I assume. Updates, even paid updates, for non EL versions, will stop by the end of April. At least as we hear. > I, as well as others here too, have the same dilema. We're in the hosting business, and we use commercial control panels. So we're limited to an OS that the control panels support. We've already made a decision to begin provisioning new servers on FreeBSD. Because that's a different subject entirely I won't dwell on it further on this list. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 US Professional Internet Services & Support / Consulting / Colocation Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 324-9706, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
