] "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.' "

Redhat is forcing all of it's users to:
A. Cut all their machines over to Fedora. (Port + Crash)
B. Cut all their machines over to RedHat Enterprise. (Port + Bling)
C. Cut all their machines over to another linux distro. (Port + Crash + Annoy)
D. Never have security updates again. (Own + Crash + Annoy)

The move probably does make sense for them financially. The approach, however, in simultaneously dropping support for 4 versions of their operating system all at once, is bound to piss a lot of people off. RH8 is hardly cold yet and they are already yanking support. There are less then two months between the dot oh release of Fedora and the end of life for the old redhats. Not enough time for a migration in a real environment. They are going to loose customers over this.