On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:14 am, Kris Bodenheimer wrote:

> Enterprise = workstations, servers, desktops etc, but not silly LUGS,
> joe shmoe sitting at home installing the latest kde, etc.  Enterprise =
> profitable business...

I dunno, Kris.  A lot of Linux servers are out there because they were free to 
build on "surplus" hardware, and they did the job.  If there had been a 
four-figure up-front licensing cost the project would have been done with a 
"surplus" MS license instead.

I run a server for a non-profit organization that will NOT be migrating to 
either of RedHat's Enterprise offerings.  I don't know for sure that the 
"Workstation" version will have been dumbed down like an NT Workstation, but 
they need a server, not a workstation.  They're locked into a product that 
was built on RedHat 7, and a lot will depend on what the third-party 
developers choose to move to.

I think there's a certain chance that the Linux community will continue to 
support and maintain the older RedHat releases because they're in exactly the 
same position this non-profit and I are in.  They'll build RH7 RPM's from 
source releases where necessary, and share them with the public.  As far as 
that goes, the older RedHat's won't be any different than Debian.