My company currently hosts 8000+ servers on RedHat and Suse Linux. After reading this article, I contacted our RedHat rep.
Here's how the distro change was presented to me:
1. The "Community Release" will be available for electronic download, and will contain the very latest "development release" of RedHat Linux.
2. The RedHat Linux Professional boxed product will be repackaged and released as "RedHat linux Desktop", which will be available from RedHat's online store, and it may or may not be available in stores. This will be the ~$150.00 per box professional workhorse that is currently in wide deployment on home and corporate desktops.
(Although the RedHat rep did not directly state so, I believe that this edition will be limited somehow to supporting 2 or fewer processors and probably 4 gig of RAM or less.)
3. RedHat Enterprise Linux WS will be the Full-featured, bells and whistles workstation edition, intended for corporate users. This version will be maintained and supported for 5 years after it's release, and is tightly integrated with RedHat network.
4. RedHat Enterprise Linux AS will continue to be the "Advanced Server" edition of RedHat Linux. Support for massive clustering, virtual hosting, multiprocessor configurations and huge storage solutions will be included.
5. RedHat Enterprise ES will continue to be the Enterprise Server edition of RedHat Linux. Support for truely large configurations, mind scrambling ammounts of main memory, 8 processor and above smb support, etc etc will be included here.
That's the story I got.
Anyone else hear a different version?
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My company currently hosts 8000+ servers on RedHat and Suse Linux. After reading this article, I contacted our RedHat rep. Here's how the distro change was presented to me: 1. The "Community Release" will be available for electronic download, and will contain the very latest "development release" of RedHat Linux. 2. The RedHat Linux Professional boxed product will be repackaged and released as "RedHat linux Desktop", which will be available from RedHat's online store, and it may or may not be available in stores. This will be the ~$150.00 per box professional workhorse that is currently in wide deployment on home and corporate desktops. (Although the RedHat rep did not directly state so, I believe that this edition will be limited somehow to supporting 2 or fewer processors and probably 4 gig of RAM or less.) 3. RedHat Enterprise Linux WS will be the Full-featured, bells and whistles workstation edition, intended for corporate users. This version will be maintained and supported for 5 years after it's release, and is tightly integrated with RedHat network. 4. RedHat Enterprise Linux AS will continue to be the "Advanced Server" edition of RedHat Linux. Support for massive clustering, virtual hosting, multiprocessor configurations and huge storage solutions will be included. 5. RedHat Enterprise ES will continue to be the Enterprise Server edition of RedHat Linux. Support for truely large configurations, mind scrambling ammounts of main memory, 8 processor and above smb support, etc etc will be included here. That's the story I got. Anyone else hear a different version?