On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:18 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm at 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 at redhat.com address -- that goes to the > people designing the new programs, not to sales. > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm at 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.) -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>