Any large enterprise still running RHEL 5 in Prod (or even, yes, older RHEL versions) has fully accepted the risks
It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’. RHEL 7 and RHEL 5 are in the right order.
RHEL sells an unrealistic expectation that you don’t need to worry about the OS for another 10 years, so the enterprise gets designed around it and becomes unable to handle an OS upgrade, ever.
It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’.
Involuntarily? An org choosing to use an EOL OS to keep running an application is a business choice that accepts the risk of compromise/lack of support of an EOL OS. Any org in this situation has 3 choices:
deprecate the application entirely closing down that line of business the application was supporting
rewrite/replace the application to maintain the line of business on a modern supported OS
It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’. RHEL 7 and RHEL 5 are in the right order.
RHEL sells an unrealistic expectation that you don’t need to worry about the OS for another 10 years, so the enterprise gets designed around it and becomes unable to handle an OS upgrade, ever.
Involuntarily? An org choosing to use an EOL OS to keep running an application is a business choice that accepts the risk of compromise/lack of support of an EOL OS. Any org in this situation has 3 choices:
There’s nothing involuntary here.
This is the involuntary choice. If you cannot choose from the first three, you end up implicitly choosing the fourth.