What do you mean by "dropping support for it's free versions"?
They will still put out patches,software udpates etc for there "free" versions.
Other support such as e-mail/phone has always been on a cost basis.
On 4 Nov 2003 at 16:19, Arthur A. Person wrote:
> Hi...
>
> It was brought to my attention today that RedHat is apparently dropping
> support for it's free versions of Linux. This leaves us (and I'm sure
> many of you) in a quandary as to what to do. The options appear to be
> either to buy support (which apparently will be $150 per desktop, more for
> servers) or switch to another vendor.
>
> We will probably be forced to switch to another vendor, at least for
> many of our desktops, because of the costs involved. I'd be interested in
> any opinions anyone has as to preferences for other Linux distributions
> and why. Also, are there any gotcha's with the other distro's as far as
> running the LDM and gempak are concerned?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Art.
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> Arthur A. Person
> Research Assistant, System Administrator
> Penn State Department of Meteorology
> email: person@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, phone: 814-863-1563
>
