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Red Hat errata policy updates and product end of lifeRed Hat errata policy updates and product end of lifePosted Jan 1, 2003 21:41 UTC (Wed) by blocke (guest, #5105)Parent article: Red Hat errata policy updates and product end of life
This is a nice little kick in the shin for people like me who work for .edu's and were trying to push RedHat/Intel as a replacement for aging Solaris and NT installations. $800/year per server totally eliminates the price advantage of RedHat over Solaris/Sparc and Windows for client and servers. Not to mention this announcement leaves a MAJOR GAPING hole in their product line for workstations stuck with proprietary applications (think Engineering software, Mathmatica, etc) where a one year upgrade cycle would be a major PITA. Even if Advanced Workstation were out today for 32-bit intel it would most likely be too expensive to make it desirable over Windows and Solaris/Sparc (plus hardware) with the discounts given for educational institutions. So it RedHat actively working to shut themselves out of the university/higher learning markets?
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