[NCLUG] Ousting Exchange

[Jeffrey D. Means]

CentOS is following the RHEL plan for now at least...

--Jeff
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:33 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:

> Sean Reifschneider writes...
> 
> > I don't understand what sort of short-term upgrade cycle you're talking
> > about.  With RHEL they will provide you with errata updates for 10 years,
> > ensuring that you don't have to roll from 3.x to 4.x for 10 years.  Debian
> > doesn't even come close to this.
> 
> But RHEL is a commercial product that costs $$$ right? Debian does 3+ years on 
> average which is pretty good for free. I think certain ubuntu releases are 
> going to be have support updates for 10+ years for free. Anybody know what 
> CentOS does?
> 
> If you're really so risk/change adverse that's you can't upgrade within 5 
> years, you probably can afford to pay RH more money to support you rather than 
> spend the same money upgrading. Either that or you have proprietary apps 
> holding you back or something.
> 

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