Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Thomas Dodd]

Sean Millichamp wrote:
> on some machines.  However, for at least half of the machines I manage 
> even RHEL Basic Edition will be too expensive on a per-year basis so I
> know that I will have no choice but to be supporting at least Fedora. 

Red Hat could offer you a redistribution contract. You pay a fairly high 
fee for the right to redistribute the updates to you customers. It 
should be managed so that the per customer/system price you must charge 
is reasonable to the customer, say $50/year/system. You then setup you 
own RHN satellite server, that only your customers can access.
I know Red Hat offers a satellite service of some sort, but I don't know 
the details.

I this model _YOU_ are Red Hat's customer, not your customers. Every 
system you install/maintain is in the support contract you pay for (So 
100 systems/month is ~1200 systems this year). You pay the fee for 1000+ 
systems, which includes discounts I'm sure, and resell to your 
customers. Any customers that have a large enought installation (say 100 
or 250 systems) would be requred to purchase direct from Red Hat, 
posibly contracting you for performing the maintaince.

	-Thomas