On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:18 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:03:42PM +0000, Laack, Andrea P wrote:
The companies that pay for RHEL licenses for production and use CentOS
for
test will be left with a large problem. They will either need to purchase double the number of RHEL licenses and switch to RHEL for testing or go
to
another distribution. RHEL + 1 will not work for testing application compatibility with patches.
In the cases where RHEL + 0.1 (note not +1) won't work, I think it's incredibly likely that this will be covered by the expanded low- and no-cost RHEL offerings.
Part of the buried lede here is that with more RHEL accessibility, a lot of the function that CentOS served for users will not be necessary anymore.
No company will want to pay double the amount they are currently paying for RHEL licenses. This is not even addressing the cost and time it will take to switch over all the test servers.
Yeah, Red Hat knows this. Hence the above. If you have a specific case, please email the centos-questions@redhat.com address -- that goes to the people designing the new programs, not to sales.
-- Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org Fedora Project Leader ______________________________________________
Don't you think it might have been a good idea to solicit these type of situations *before* killing CenOS 8?
After the complete and utter disaster RedHat has shat upon the World with the handling of this, there is no way anyone will ever trust that a "free" or "low cost" version of RHEL will stay that way for any length of time. To suggest so to this list, today, is ludicrous.
Unless there's a reversal of course here, I, and many others, will never recommend any RHEL product to my superiors from now on.
(I'm hoping the horse isn't dead yet.)