State of 7.2/8.0 in Fedora Legacy

[Howard Owen]

Well, they do call it a "transition" service. OTOH, they recently
extended their commitment to provide the service through the end of
2005. I can understand you not wanting to pay 25 bucks (30, not 60, I
doubled it inadvertently, minus 5 for the one month) for five months of
service you don't need. But it does seem to put an upper bound on how
valuable you think the Fedora Legacy service is, at least for this
particular server.

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:01, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Howard B Owen <howen at cisco.com>:
> 
> > There are very economical commercial patch services for legacy systems.
> > If it's one server, five bucks a month (six month minimum) will get you
> > Progeny Transition Service support. (http://transition.progeny.com) If
> > you are planning to upgrade after the spring quarter, it sounds like all
> > you would need would be sixty bucks.
> 
> * Economical is in the eye of the beholder.
> * We have no idea how long Progeny et al will continue the support.
> * My spring quarter is over next week, so if I upgrade then, I sure
>    don't want to buy 6 months of support for the no longer installed O/S
> 
> > The point is, the more popular releases are more likely to be deployed
> > on a larger number of servers. Apart from the project resource issues,
> > concentrating on the releases with a greater installed base may provide
> > most of the value in places where money is tight.
> 
> Progeny et al may take the same attitude, and then the there would be
> no support left...
> 
> --
> Eric Rostetter
> 
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