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Buy VMware, get SuSE

Anyone following VMware's enterprise offerings will know that VMware has been "in bed" with Red Hat for a long time. The "service console" of the ESX product has been Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based since the beginning, and many of the virtual appliance-based products (VMware Data Recovery e.g.) are RHEL or CentOS based. But now VMware comes with a partnership announcement with Novell/SuSE, not Red Hat ! Anyone buying vSphere will get SLES for free, including patches ! Note, the offer isn't fully up just yet, they forecast a GA launch in 3Q2010. But anyone buying vSphere starting today (june 9th) will be in on the offer when it launches. Beware, "free" doesn't include support, from what I read in the press release. But SLES support will be available through VMware. A lot of questions are waiting for an answer: Will this deal impact the place RHEL and CentOS held in the VMware solution stack ? What will be the response from Red...
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are you still using RHEL 2.1 ?

Are you still using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, or CentOS 2.1 ? Then this news is of great importance to you: planned End-Of-Life for these products is approaching ! After May 2009, there will be no more security updates for RHEL 2.1, nor support from Red Hat. It's not really news , as the lifecycle of RHEL products has always been clearly announced and published . If you missed all that, this is the time to start planning an upgrade. Your Red Hat subscription gives you the right to use the newer versions of RHEL, so upgrading is all you need to do. Need help planning an upgrade to RHEL 3, 4 or 5 ? I can recommend some experienced consultants ! ;-)
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