I will never give another company my money again until they can guarantee me a stable product with a stable lifecycle where I won't wake up one day and find out that my OS, my entire computer life, essentially, has been EOLed 6 months out.
IMHO, that is exactly what Red Hat has done with the Enterprise line: you install it, and it is guaranteed to be supported for *at least* five years after the date of its release.
Red Hat also fixed their blunder with RHPWS by making its subscription renewable. So you install PWS (essentially RHEL-WS) for $90 ($30 for the box/media/manuals and $60 for a year of RHN service) and then you can renew that subscription after a year for another $60 (if I recall correctly). And since PWS == WS, you also have that five-year product life.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
