RedHat Professional Workstation

[Chris Kloiber]

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:51, Marcus O. White wrote:
> By "dead-end", I mean a product from which you cannot upgrade to the
> next release or it's equivalent. For instance with RHL 9, I can upgrade
> to Fedora Core 1 or RHEL WS/ES/AS. I've told been by different sources
> that upgrading would not be possible with RHPW. Which, in my opinion,
> doesn't make make sense because it is still RPM based. Can one upgrade
> from RHPW to RHEL? Now granted if it is based on the same code set
> nothing should take place correct?

My understanding is that with Red Hat Professional Workstation is
considered to be a "retail product" that includes one year of Red Hat
Network updates, and 30 days of installation support. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (AS/ES/WS) is a "subscription" including varying levels of Phone
and/or Web based support and access to the Red Hat Network. 

The difference is that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
"subscriptions", you immediately got access to and support for the
corresponding Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 bits when they became available
via Red Hat Network. You could then run either one RHEL-2.1 *or* one
RHEL-3 system, your choice, per "subscription". 

With Red Hat Professional Workstation 3, there will be no instant Red
Hat Network access to the Red Hat Professional Workstation 4 (again, if
that is the name given) bits when they become available. You would need
to purchase that "retail product" separately.

Does this make any sense?

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.