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Progeny To Offer Support For Red Hat 8.0 and 9
zerocool^ writes "In a previous story it was noted that Progeny would offer support to Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3 customers facing an End of Life deadline of 31 December 2003. Progeny has updated their 'transitional software' offerings to include support for Red Hat 8.0 and 9 for $5 per month, per machine. This is great news for IT folks who are faced with the choice of a new OS or abandoned 1-year-old software."
Maybe they can do the same thing with Windows 98 while they're at it. ;)
$2500 per month for unlimited machines? Google could get one heck of a deal!
Support Windows 98
It's because they're not Microsoft.
When Redhat EOLs its products after a year, they're doing so to remain competitive in a changing marketplace, or something like that.
When Microsoft EOLs its products after 6 or 7 years, they're doing it to force customers into upgrades.
This is Slashdot, remember...
I mean, I'm a nerd of my own and never used a paid Linux user support, but often helped people and many times I faced a problem I couldn't solve "over the phone".
So, how good is such user support?
Say, I run an important mailing list. A random power failure, severe disk corruption, nobody really knows what works OK and what is broken, week-old backup of data, no system backup, no network, no other computer to move the harddisk, I must work with this broken system. I must get it back up and running with as much of remaining database as possible, possibly fixing any corruption. Is the user support good enough to lead me through such landmine-ridden system?
(if the above doesn't seem disastrous enough for you, think of your favourite "heavy disaster" scenario that still leaves some hope of recovery)
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RedHat? What about Ford? Silly them to EOL supporting the Model T. Now where the hell am I going to get a pistons for a 177CU 22 HP motor? Now how the hell can I top out at 30MPH?