Re: [rhn-users] RedHat End Of Life

[Tony Rodgers <t rodgers library usyd edu au>]

I am in a similar situation with 4 production servers running RH 7.3 which 
have RH network subs up to Sept 2004.  I was planning to upgrade these to 
RH 9, but now that RH is pulling the plug on RH 9 in April 2004, there 
hardly seems much point. I have 2 issues:

1 what happens to the "unused" part of the RH Network subscription, if 
there really are no further updates & security patches after April 2004 (I 
guess these could be credited to RHEL subscriptions?)

2  I am concerned that the migration "path" to RHEL does not include an 
upgrade option. Unless I've missed something, there is no alternative to 
completely re-installing the OS if you want to migrate to RHEL. The cost is 
not an issue for me, it's the need to completely re-install the OS on 
production servers.  An upgrade path would be "nice"...


tony

Quoting "Adam G. Sweeney" <agsweeney unixplayground com>:

> According to the RedHat website (
> 
<<http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/>http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/>
> 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?
>
> --
>  Adam G. Sweeney
>
>


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