On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 18:09, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 18:53 4/14/2004, you wrote: > >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. Except, remember that I also specified that it be CHEAPER than Windows. Anything more expensive or close to expensive as Windows is a non-starter in my book, given that there are other distros out there for less money. Stability is worth something, but it's not worth THAT much. > 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. I wasn't aware of that. Last time I checked PWS was just like "Hey, buy me and you can buy me again next year". That's, at least, how I read it to work. I didn't see any promise of a running support life-cycle where you could purchase a RHN-style support where you could get fixes. I'll have to investigate that, perhaps. Do you have a URL for that? Preston
