The problem comes in with the fact that no one in our department is going to stand for a Fedora rollout/reinstall every 8 or so months.... to say nothing of the fact that this schedule is going to put our 2 man IT team into a permanent "get ready for the new release" mode. While I realize that the Fedora Legacy project has been created to address these sorts of needs, I guess I'm a little skeptical.
I sincerely apologize for asking this because I mean no offense... but is the Fedora Legacy Project going to be something that people like me can truly depend on?
Honestly, I think it will be.
But as a counter point: Have you ever really been able to count on a company? I haven't.
If red hat gets bought up and decides to change directions for some reason guess where you might be with RHEL? Screwed. That's where. You might have a contract that says they have to support you - but they can offer the minimum possible resources to do that and still be w/i the contract rules.
NEVER trust a vendor b/c they are a vendor - I'd much rather trust other opensource developers to do the 'right thing' than I would to trust ANY company to do the 'right thing'. After all, the 'right thing' for a publicly held company is to make the most money for their shareholders.
-sv