{"id":244308,"date":"2026-05-12T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/red-hat-offers-endless-linux-support-for-a-fee\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:15:10","slug":"red-hat-offers-endless-linux-support-for-a-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/red-hat-offers-endless-linux-support-for-a-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat offers endless Linux support \u2014 for a fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/4169793\/red-hat-wants-to-end-forced-enterprise-migrations.html\">Red Hat offers endless Linux support \u2014 for a fee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/4169793\/red-hat-wants-to-end-forced-enterprise-migrations.html\">https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/4169793\/red-hat-wants-to-end-forced-enterprise-migrations.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 08:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cio.com\">www.cio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This builds on the open-source software company\u2019s 14-year support commitment for major RHEL releases, a premium package announced in April.<\/p>\n<p>Most enterprise software vendors use end-of-life dates as a \u201cmigration forcing function,\u201d noted Shashi Bellamkonda, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. But, he said, \u201cRed Hat is reading the room differently. With infrastructure costs up, and IT teams stretched, telling a CIO \u2018you can stay put indefinitely with full support\u2019 is a genuine competitive differentiator, not just a pricing play.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"supporting-multi-decade-paths\">Supporting \u2018multi-decade paths\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>For a variety of reasons, some customers cannot or aren\u2019t ready to upgrade or migrate to another platform, Gunnar Hellekson, VP and GM for the RHEL business unit, said in a virtual briefing. With the RHEL Long-Life Add-On, though, they can \u201csafely stay in place\u201d while retaining required consistency and autonomy, and managing risk and compliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The service extends infrastructure support beyond 14 years to provide a \u201cmulti-decade path\u201d for specialized workflows operating on infrastructure that must remain stable and supported \u201cfar beyond standard or even extended software lifecycles,\u201d Red Hat said. For instance, in telecom, healthcare, and aerospace, hardware and regulatory lifecycles can span decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/4169793\/red-hat-wants-to-end-forced-enterprise-migrations.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat offers endless Linux support \u2014 for a fee https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/4169793\/red-hat-wants-to-end-forced-enterprise-migrations.html Publish Date: 2026-05-12 08:08:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4169793-0-43833400-1778587651-red-hat-logo-on-building.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,94],"class_list":["post-244308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-red-hat-enterprise-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244311,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244308\/revisions\/244311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}