On Monday 17 November 2003 10:08 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:13:13AM -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Last impression I got on this topic, Redhat was still deciding what'll > > happen to RHPW after 1 year. A lot of speculations here was suggested > > that it will have 5 yr life time since it's based on RHEL ES. > > Apparently that's not the case. RHPW is not renewable after 1 year, that > > means you have to upgrade with all the fun of reinstall and everything. > > Plus, it says there is no "supported" upgrade path to RHEL. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/ > > > > I am not happy. > > I'm friggin' hostile and *will* be following up on this. Thanks for doing that for the rest of us. > For you, however, since you're with an educational institution, you > should be excited by the recent announcement here: > http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5107941.html?tag=nefd_top Thanks again for the info. I called the sales and left them message before I post to ask about educational pricing. They haven't get back to me yet, while I need the product now. So if anyone knows where I can get those, that'd be much appreciated. Of course, there is always the issue how long this is going to be supported. Anything under 2 years is just not an option. We need to do research, not upgrading servers :(. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
