CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 15 December 2020
The implication may be that Red Hat has decided that the availability of CentOS undermines the commercial side of its business. "If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact Red Hat about options," said CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen.
CentOS Stream, by contrast, is a development preview of what is soon to come in RHEL, focused on the next minor release. Another distro, Fedora, is further ahead and more experimental.
When your server gets from stable to beta, then it's time to think. RedHat tries to pull the same card Oracle did back then with OpenOffice and MySQL. That did not work out too well for them, so now we have LibreOffice and MariaDB.