On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:37:07PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:50:42PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:31:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > 2) Debian does not support stable releases for five years as RedHat or > > > SuSE do. > > > > Does RHEL have 5 year support now, out of the box? I don't have to pay an > > inordinate amount of money to get long-term support? ... > > I was sufficiently taken aback by this that I had to go check myself... > http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/details/ > > I'll be interested to see if they're actually sticking to this in 4.5 years > time... Their customers will raise holy hell if they don't. I note that the licencing for all of the products is annually -- and I see nothing that guarantees that the last year or two of support won't be a little more costly than the list price... - Matt
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