Re: [rhn-users] RedHat End Of Life

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop yahoo com>]

I am in a near identical situation.  Wanna have your lawyer talk to my
lawyer now, or should we wait until we are hung out to dry by RH?   

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:09, Tony Rodgers wrote:
> 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
>  >
>  >
> 
> 
> Tony Rodgers
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> 
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> 
> Tony Rodgers,
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> 
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