[ Thanks to Dag Wieers
for this link. ]
“Almost exactly a year ago, I posted a blog article
titled Is 7 years of RHEL support still sufficient ?. In that
article I make the case that with RHEL major releases moving from
1.5 years to 3 years and virtualization reducing the importance of
hardware life cycles, RHEL support should be extended beyond 7
years.“Yesterday Red Hat announced that it did just that. From today
Red Hat offers RHEL Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) on top of
normal subscriptions for specific versions and variants. Meaning
that for RHEL3 only i686 AS/ES and for RHEL4 i686 and x86_64 AS/ES
and ia64 AS are taken into consideration and are thus more
expensive than regular support. No pricing information is available
yet.”