On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:47 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> said: > > There's always Fedora then---RH EL is not for everone. Or are you > > saying RH should release a new version every year or so but support each > > and every old version for 6 years? > > No, I don't expect a release every 12 months. The problem is that the > release cycle is getting longer with each release: > > RHEL 3 -> RHEL 4: 16 months > RHEL 4 -> RHEL 5: 25 months > RHEL 5 -> RHEL 6: ? - 35 months and counting (at least 3-6 months yet?) >
The timing "delay" of RHEL6 is causing problems for my department. My servers usually have a 3 year replacement cycle and I replaced them early in the RHEL5 cycle. Since they're coming due I've got to decide on whether to deploy RHEL5 again or try to get extended maintenance on the hardware. Since we've got to revalidate all of our in-house software before we can do the move it is not like we can just throw a switch when RHEL6 comes out ... I actually have to plan for it. I contacted Redhat's sales via the website to try to get an estimate of when RHEL 6 will be available but I didn't even get a "if we told you we'd have to kill you". RHEL is a great product and I understand the need to get the virtualization product out out the door, but not having any information about the upcoming releases RHEL (even if it is vague) is driving me nuts. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
