Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years

[Bryan Yeung]

Dearest Partners,

We are pleased to share an important announcement that was sent along 
the news wires this morning. Supporting materials and a link to the 
press release are also included below.  Please share the exciting news 
with your colleagues, customers and partners.



RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX LIFE CYCLE EXTENDED TO TEN YEARS

Life cycle extension is driven in response to overall market adoption 
and provides for additional customer choice and flexibility

Today Red Hat is pleased to announce that it has extended the life cycle 
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and future releases from seven to 10 
years, effective immediately. This announcement is in response to the 
widespread adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since its introduction 
in 2007, and the increasing rate of adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
6 since its launch in 2010.

During the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers take 
advantage of a multitude of benefits, including feature enhancements, 
critical bug and security fixes, as well as award-winning support from 
Red Hat’s Global Support Services team. Customers also enjoy stability 
from Red Hat Enterprise Linux resulting from a commitment to ABI and API 
compatibility during the life cycle. Finally, Red Hat delivers a steady 
stream of supported hardware platforms, aligning to the new introduction 
cycles of hardware OEM partners.

The result of the extended life cycle is that customers will enjoy all 
of the benefits of their subscription over a longer period of time. 
Specifically, this means additional time to take advantage of the 
significant investments that customers make in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
related to their business critical applications. Finally, enterprise 
customers will now have options for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
implementations, and can use the longer life cycle to plan for 
migrations as well as new deployments.

We are excited about this announcement, and in particular about the 
additional value that it provides to customers, in response to their 
reliance on Red Hat to help run and grow their business.

For additional details, please refer to the following resources that 
have been made available:

The press release associated with this announcement: 
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/1/red-hat-enterprise-linux-stability-drives-demand-for-more-flexibility-in-long-term-operating-system-deployments

cheers,

Bryan Yeung
Channel Manager,
Red Hat HK


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