RE: Red Hat Linux 9 - the end is very near - 6 months,

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jordi Gil [mailto:jgil 3tres3 com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 5:48 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - the end is very near - 6 months,
> 
> 
> My question about all this is:
> 
> I just have installed a red hat 9.0 webserver, ¿will red hat 
> give me a solution to upgrade my server to red hat linux 
> enterprise?, if not how in the hell can I change my server, 
> because I have read that I need to reinstall my server If I 
> want to change to red hat linux enterprise.

Redhat has no official upgrade path from Redhat 8.0, to Redhat Enterprise 3.0.  But, I have been told it's possible, but not recommended.  Your problem, your on Redhat 9.0, Enterprise 3.0 is based off of Redhat 8.0.  I would sooner rebuild the server again with the new Enterprise product than attempt that side/back/upgrade... Whatever the case may end up being.  OR wait about 18-24 months and Enterprise 4.0 should be out.  

Sorry, no good answers for you, I'm there myself, but fortunately at a spot that will only be a little painful to replace the OS.  The worst for me is the engineers.. I'll me dawning my flame proof suit when I tell them I am changing the OS on "their" server.

> 
> Another question is:
> 
> I have a server with apache, mailman, MySQL, PHP, Qmail, 
> courier-imap and squirrelmail, it gives mail to 40 users and 
> hosts 4 sites with 1.000.000 pages visited per day. What 
> should I do migrate to Fedora?, or I should migrate to Red 
> Hat enterprise Linux. If I should migrate to Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux which version AS or ES version??.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Jordi
> 

Whats your business plan?

Is $2,500 a year worth it for premier 24/7 phone call support, for questions you can't answer?

Is $2,500 a year worth it to have patches, etc. for Redhat for 5 YEARS, Redhat Enterprises life span.

I'm going to be running the AS version, but my server is serving files for 500-3,000 users over NFS, Samba, and FTP on 3 physically isolated networks, storing about 1.5TB of data.  Not a large server, or even a medium one.  But figured going for the higher end version couldn't hurt me, and the difference in price from lower end to higher end is not that much of an issue for where I work.

What you need to ask, is.  Is AS or ES going to make your system more stable in terms of getting support when you need it in a timely basis.  Is KNOWING that you will get regular security patches worth it.  Etc. etc. etc.