Orbital Sander writes "Received a missive this morning from the
Red Hat Network, stating that they will discontinue maintenance
on Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.0 by the end of 2003, and on Red Hat
9.0 by the end of April, 2004. And, more ominously: 'Red Hat
does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux
line.' [The full text of the email is on Newsforge.] Kind of
the end of an era, and the new king has already been appointed:
Red Hat Linux is dead! Long live Red Hat Enterprise Linux!
Looks like they realized that only their support
contract-based version of the product was making them any
money." 

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5102282.html 

Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said
on Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding
expectations for corporate users, home users should stick with
Windows: "I would say that for the consumer market place,
Windows probably continues to be the right product line," he
said. "I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and
perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that
classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux)
technology needs to mature a little bit more."

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html 

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