Too short! Get real

Too short! Get real

Posted Jan 2, 2003 23:19 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Too short! by dskoll
Parent article: Red Hat errata policy updates and product end of life

6.2 was released in the spring of 2000. That means the product was supported for 3 years when it is 'discontinued'. While that seems like a short time, it is 12 development cycles in Red Hat time. Most of the items on it are not maintained at that level upstream and there isnt a yearly revenue stream of at least $400,000 to pay for the engineers that would be needed to keep the product up. That 400,000 would pay for about 2-3 engineers, 1-2 qa people at $60,000 on average salary. The rest would get soaked up in insurance for both company and people... plus all the other overhead costs...

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