Re: Thoughts on Fedora

[Thomas Smith <tom openadventures org>]

Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:50, Ed Wilts wrote:
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> > My home system will be going to Red Hat Professional Workstation.  My
> > copy has already shipped.  It's based on RHEL 3 WS, sells for $82
> > (buy.com) and it includes a full year of RHN for updates. IMO, it's a
> > nice upgrade from my 7.1/RHN configuration before and a reasonable
> > price (effectively $22 if you're used to paying $60/yr anyway).
> >    
>
> Were you able to find anything detailed about Pro Workstation?  The Red
> Hat website (http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/) is fairly
> non-descript.
My biggest issue here is that one of the selling points for RHL was that 
you get all the OS FREE (along with Apache, Samba, Bind, etc). 
Commercial support was available. I convinced my customers to subscribe 
to RHN (most did so at $60/month). And some were showing interest in Red 
Hat's web-based monitoring interface (don't recall the URL but monitors 
CPU load, disk space, and much more).

Now, to get similar commercial support in a RHL release that /includes/ 
the same server tools they're used to they'll have to drop $350 (the Pro 
Workstation doesn't include any server software--according to Red Hat's 
site). Now the "value" of Linux is starting to fade for them.

This is unfortunate. I was absolutely willing to pay for their RHN and 
monitoring services--this has incredible value to me. I haven't seen how 
or if similar options will be available for Fedora but they've made it 
clear that /no commercial support/ is available.