I'm not surprised at the "delay" for RHEL 6. Consider 2.x is still supported this means they are supporting 4 different RHEL versions right now. I would actually wait until at least 2.x dies..if not maybe 3.x before spitting out another version. On 4/1/2010 7:16 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: > ... > >> Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. >> Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about >> to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses >> the same EL major release for more than 5 years. I mean, can you imagine >> anyone who used RHEL 2.1 up until less than a year ago? >> > So, if I set up a server with RHEL 5.5 or CentOS 5.4 today, > I would only get updates until 14-Mar-2012, if the life > time is reduced to 5 years? > > That's less than two years. > > That's a bit too short lifetime for my servers. > > Yes of course, I can upgrade to RHEL 6 when it comes out, > but my reason for paying Red Hat is to avoid the upgrade. > > Mogens > >