[N3WBI3]

My position has been rather consistent. 5 to 7 years is a fine life cycle for an operating system but its important to give as much full support and time in sales for a proper migration. If MS had been able to get Vista out in 2004 like they planned we would not be having this conversation because as far as I am concerned two to three years of time *of full support* after that they can burn the last copy of xp and urinate on the ashes.

CentOS provides you with an upgrade path about every 18 months and Full support 5 years (with 7 years of support for everything but hardware drivers). so by the Time CentOS5 is out of support (2014) I will have the options to upgrade to CentOS 6(2008), 7(2010), 8(2011), 9(2012), and maybe 10(2014).

[Golden Eagle]

My position has been rather consistent.

ROFL! Hilarious, if you dared to apply the same standard on CentOS you put on Windows, CentOS would be "unsupported" from the very beginning. All they are is a rip off of Red Hat anyway, doesn't take much engineering to burn a cd of someone else's work, yet again we see this is what you apparently look up to.