Planning for Redhat Upgrades

[Marc Schmitt]

Gordon Ewasiuk wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I got a bunch of RH upgrades in the works - bunch of servers going 
> from 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.0 to 9.  This Fedora stuff is causing me some 
> concern.  I work for a small ISP/webhosting shop.  The money for RHEL 
> just isn't there. 

We're in a similar position, being an educational institution, we're not 
going to get 400 licenses for our workstations/clusters unless RedHat 
comes forward with a site license (we're currently contacting RedHat 
concerning such a license).
We've been deploying RedHat Linux in the last four years, have built up 
a very comfortable installation suite and centralized software 
distribution mechanism, basicly, today, we are there where we wanted to 
be with RedHat Linux when we started a couple of years ago...
The "Fedora" project did not catch us by surprise, though, the moment RH 
introduced the one year product life cycle, it was pretty much clear to 
me that such a move would come.

However, as I said, if we don't get a decent site license from RedHat, 
we'll drop it and move to Debian which is successfully deployed in other 
departements of our university.

And yes, I'm RHCE (7.2)...

Greetz
    Marc