Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:54:32PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Stromberg wrote: Thank you for recognizing that admins have more useful things to do with their time than a steady stream of redhat upgrades. As Ed points out, that

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread Matthew Boeckman
This is definitely getting OT from RHLAS, but my $.02: I agree that even if clients howl, upgrading for the sake of upgrading makes no real sense. This is something that you as an admin should manage better (perhaps through tyour account manager weenies) and set the clients expectations

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Stromberg wrote: our users just hate starting out with something older than the latest. Well, ok, but it's their money ... they have to decide on the balance between stability and bleeding edge, and understand that for any given cash outlay for

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Talkington wrote: Dan Stromberg wrote: our users just hate starting out with something older than the latest. Well, ok, but it's their money ... they have to decide on the balance between stability and bleeding edge, and understand that for

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 13:46, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Stromberg wrote: our users just hate starting out with something older than the latest. Well, ok, but it's their money ... they have to decide on the balance between stability and

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bret Hughes wrote: I have worked with users that always wanted the latest and greatest as soon as they found out there was something else out there. My guess is that in this case the users in question probably do not keep up with the linux

Re: RHLAS

2002-04-01 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:23:40PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: But I'm still not sure how spending a lot of money on an enterprise version of an operating system simply to quell 'version envy' is a decision that would be seen as wise by whoever holds the purse strings. I'm not fully

RHLAS

2002-03-29 Thread Dan Stromberg
This is a message about Redhat Linux Advanced Server. 1) Will RHLAS be available for free download? 2) What's the technical low-down on this? How's it different from the usual RHL? Please don't marketing-speak me - please assume your audience is pro admin with a bit of programming and system

Re: RHLAS

2002-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
1) Will RHLAS be available for free download? AFAIK, no. 2) What's the technical low-down on this? How's it different from the usual RHL? Please don't marketing-speak me - please assume your audience is pro admin with a bit of programming and system internals background. Please read

Re: RHLAS

2002-03-29 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Stromberg wrote: Thank you for recognizing that admins have more useful things to do with their time than a steady stream of redhat upgrades. As Ed points out, that really shouldn't be an issue for you. There's no compelling reason for you,