Re: Natural upgrade path for RedHat 9?

hello
i have been used RH for over 5 yrs and some of our server are going to
RH AS and most of our workstations are moving to fedora
i have fedora servers in testing right now(PG 7.4 and 7.3) and have not
seen any major problems
as for extended rh9,7.. support you can check out
http://www.tummy.com/Software/krud
i have used them and i love the cd based idea
jeff

Richard Huxton wrote:

>On Friday 09 January 2004 03:13, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
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>>Is there going to be a RedHat 10? Or are we all supposed
>>to choose a path of RH Enterprise vs Fedora Core? I have
>>about 10 to 20 Redhat 9 machines in dev/qa/production that
>>I'm trying to plan the futures for.
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>It's RH-Enterprise/Fedora from here in, the bonus should be that you know
>where you stand with RH-Ent. I can't see availability being a problem, Fedora
>is going to have all the standard packages available and even in the worst
>case scenario will be around for a few years. RedHat can't afford *not* to
>support their Enterprise product, so that's about as safe a choice as you can
>get.
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>The question is whether you want free, but rapidly changing with no corporate
>support, 350 USD/EUR per year with regular patches, 1500 USD/EUR per year
>with support too. RedHat have some documents on their site describing the
>differences.
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>There has also been talk about third-parties providing security-only patches
>to older RedHat versions, but I don't know if any of these has/will happen.
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>In your case, I'm guessing it depends on your budget. If your machines cost
>5000 each then I'm guessing 350 p.a. isn't too bad. On the other hand if they
>are cheap 700 EUR white-boxes, the price might not look so good.
>
>They seem to be your options - the beauty is, if you don't like them you can
>always switch to another distribution.
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