What RPMs are going to be supported with RHEL and RH Prof WS???

[Chris A Czerwinski]

I see Red Hat's current "Under the Brim" is giving a sales pitch... 

Red Hat Professional Workstation: Enterprise Linux gets personal
Want to run an enterprise-quality operating system but don't actually
have an enterprise? Red Hat has the answer Red Hat Professional
Workstation. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Professional Workstation
provides a complete suite of tools for the power desktop user at an
affordable price. Best of all, it's annually renewable and comes with
one year of Red Hat Network updates and upgrades. 

Buy today and get a limited edition Red Hat cap.

Is this still the old version of back then - Date unknown?
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When I go to their Web Site and look at the various Red Hat Operating
Systems I am getting confused or more to the point I am looking for
specifics.

I cannot find which versions of applications come with which operating
systems or what it now supports i.e what Red Hat Package Management
(RPM's) will now come with each Operating System (as in previous
versions!!) (and if it's detailed it's somewhere obscurely hidden from
us not to see.)

                       RedHat  | RedHat   RedHat  RedHat  RedHat Fedora
                       Linux 9 | Prof-WS  EL-WS   EL-ES   EL-AS   Core

XFree86                4.3.0   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
BlueCurve                      |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
GNOME                  2.2.0   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
KDE                            |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Ximian Evolution       1.2.2-5 |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
OpenOffice             1.0.2   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Mozilla                1.2.1   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Samba                  2.27    |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
GCC                    3.2     |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Perl                   5.8.0   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Python                 2.2     |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
Apache                 2.0     |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
MySQL                  3.23.58 |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?
PostgreSQL             7.3.4   |   ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?     ?.?


What does this mean? NO MORE Red Hat Package Management (RPM) utility???

Does that mean Red Hat is getting out of this feature and support? 

Does it mean that the various Applications now have to prepare their own
RPM's for RED HAT (also FEDORA) OS's? 

And for which version of Red Hat will they prepare and create? for the
top end? (or RHEL-WS? or RHEL-ES? or RHEL-AS? or RH Prof WS?) or does
Red Hat have the proper file structure as in other Distributions? Is
there a common feature for all to follow?

How should I cope with this - or does Red Hat care about us?

Red Hat promoted Linux and helped the users to get Red Hat up and
running. We followed the American dream and adopted Red Hat and they
(Red Hat) adopted a lot of new Linuxers and now that they've got
corporate's attention with their servers and stability does that mean -
they don't need us (peons) anymore? 

Fedora doesn't even have a BASE version for newcomers to adopt or other
PC'ers to move over to LINUX - FEDORA target is always moving - unlike
as other Distributions are finding out. Again the question - does Red
Hat Care?

What is my objective for staying with Red Hat that they are abandoning
us Newbies or recent Adopters of Linux. Why should I still promote Red
Hat for their product service now that they have set their sites on the
Corporate Level?

Sun is coming out with their own DeskTop version (which means there is a
business need), Novell has come out with their SUSE which will promote
their Base version (again another pro-business case) and Red Hat isn't
considering this option and is dropping us and FEDORA is always moving
forward with no Base version?

I don't understand? We did nothing wrong. We followed.
(from the movie "A FEW GOOD MEN" - Jack Nicholson, Tome Cruise)
I want answers. I think I'm entitled.

If I now need to learn another distribution then why should I still care
about staying and supporting Red Hat. They would have weaned me off and
there seems other good systems that could benefit from me or for that
matter I from them. Why do I feel that I have been dropped out of the
nest and when I look back at Red Hat - Do I see the door closing behind
me without an answer?

Chris Cz (still learning that there are no answers or...)