On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Patrick Moelands wrote:

> Interesting news from Red Hat: they extend their support for RHEL
> versions with one year.
> This means 4 years support instead of 3!
> More info: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/rhel-backported-one-additional-year

well -- actually it seemed that the upstream were going to 
keep it from moving into maintenance mode for a year longer, 
but that a 7 year life remained.  Probably just fine tuneing 
the major release overlap windows, for corporate clients (I 
know of one huge RHEL customer still running the 3 series 
primarily, who intends to largely ship the 4 release).

-- Russ herrold