Running to the end of CentOS ?

CentOS it's use by most IT production, because it's a derivative of RHEL, a tested, stable and reliable GNU/Linux OS.

Today 2020/12/08, they announce us that #CentOS becomes a derivative of Fedora and will be an upstream for future #RHEL, a "beta" version of #RHEL (who want to use it in production?). https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ (IBM effect ?)

This decision will have serious impact on IT's OPEX, since 2022.

Logically for the same OS reliability and compatibility, you have to move from CentOS to RHEL. And this for the end of 2021 (if you use CentOS8 in production). That means buy more subscriptions, because of the "all or nothing" principle of Red Hat subscription, that say: "if a customer has active Red Hat subscriptions, they are still required to maintain a subscription for each instance of Red Hat Enterprise product in the environment."

At another side, we have to add the cost of migrating from CentOS to another distro, even if it's RHEL or a rebuild like Oracle Linux (this last have already surf on this announcement, by proposing a fast switching https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/). For sure, there will be opportunities for SysAdmin between 2021 from 2022.

Thank you to the CentOS teams, for the work over the years.
Hey #debian are you there?

PS: For the most reckless, you can sign a petition there https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream