RedHat 9 will be released today to RHN subscribers and the rest of the world the week after. It appears they're skipping the traditional 8.1 and 8.2 releases to catch up to the marketing version number of other commercial releases. Hopefully they'll go back to point releases after this; most RH users depend on later point releases as a broad indicator of stability. I've been happy with 8.0 at home, but I would not expect a business environment to adopt an x.0 release, at least not within the first year.