Dear Colleague:
You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your systems running the latest errata and always up to date. What you might not know is that Red Hat Network passed the one million users mark earlier this year. We've listened to valuable feedback and have
added two items of interest to keep those users happy - early release of Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs and improved technical support.
What happened to 8.1? I feel that if Red Hat is going to increment in Full x.0 release numbers, they're going to obsolete alot of their RHCE's much quicker than if they had made this a x.1. IMHO, there isn't enough of a difference between 8.0 and this release to justify a 9.0 version number, but that Red Hat is simply trying to catch up with other Distros such as Mandrake and Suse in order to offer a "comprable" product.
I RHCE'd on 7.3, which would be considered "not current" after a 9.3 release. However if they've switched to full x.0 releases from here on out, I'll be non-current by November 1st, 16 months after receiving the cert (going by older release models, it would have been good for 24-36 months - which one might expect for $795). Even MCSE's typically last longer than 16 months...
I'm sure it's purely a marketing decision... but not one I'm happy with unless they change their RHCE policy to match.
-Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
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