[rhn-users] RedHat End Of Life

["Adam G. Sweeney" <agsweeney unixplayground com>]

Title: Message

According to the RedHat website (http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/), RedHat 7->8.0 will reach end of life on December 31, 2003 and RedHat 9.0 will also on April 30, 2004.

 

On this same page it is stated that "At certain times, Red Hat may extend errata maintenance for certain popular releases of the operating system."

 

So, here is my question.  I have three production servers collocated in Houston with paid subscriptions to the RedHat Network that expire on 2004-06-11.  Does the end of life mean (assuming the worst and they do not extend anything beyond the set dates) that they will not honor the subscription? Or am I reading into this completely wrong.

 

Currently I have one system running v7.1 and two systems running v7.3.  I can move the v7.1 system and one of the v7.3 systems up to whatever version, but the third system *must* run v7.3 (or possibly ES/AS v2.1) in order for some of my third party packages to work.

 

I have not a problem with "in the future" having to purchase "Enterprise Network Subscriptions", but I want to know how the currently paid for subscriptions are to be handled "post end of life" on these products. Are we going to see subscription for subscription upgrades to ES or is RedHat going to continue/extend support for these systems beyond the EOL dates?

 

Would someone from RedHat with the facts on this matter please reply?

 

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 Adam G. Sweeney