Re: Product cycles too short for small businesses (esp. Red Hat)

David Vehrs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2003 10:14, David Vehrs wrote:
> > What you want is for Redhat to provide an UPDATE SERVICE to you for their
> > most inexpensive products for an UNLIMITED time period (well until you
> > decide to upgrade)??
> >
> > If Redhat were to do this, they would quickly be out of business.
> 
> Why not...SuSE does exactly that.  Not unlimited, but at least
> three years.

Funny the last few SuSE installs I did came with 1 year support
contracts, just like Redhat (both are renewable).

Dave V.

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