Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg starken com>]

But the $96/year is only for the RHN component.  If you want to go to RHEL 4,
you'd have to pay the $349 for that.  There are some deals in the education
markets that can get the software upgrades for cheaper/free, but outside of
that, the yearly cost is for RHN only.  So you could spend the $349/year and
always have the RHN + RHEL.  What I don't like is, I spend $349 now for RHEL,
and I get the 1 year RHN.  But then after that 1 year, I still have 6 months
before the next RHEL comes out, so I have to spend the $96 for a 12-month RHN,
when I really only need 6 months.  I think that Red Hat should either sell a
6-month RHN subscription for the RHEL, or make the RHN subscription that comes
with RHEL last for 18 months.

Dan


Quoting Féliciano Matias <feliciano matias free fr>:

> Humm...
> Sorry.
> 
> What you don't like is :
> https://rhn.redhat.com/network/sales/index.pxt
> - "(*)Enterprise Entitlements provide a level of service. Subscribing to
> this will give you access for Red Hat Linux, but not Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux."
> 
> But a RHEL 3 AS at $96/year is really attractive !
> 
> My point of view is if you find better outside RH, take it.
> Or talk about this competitor to RedHat.
> 
> Building RHEL is expensive. $96/year for RHEL can't be a good business
> model for RedHat.
> 
> Perhaps you are referencing to this article in Osnews :
> http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=4354&limit=no
> 
> There are good comments.
> 
> -- 
> Féliciano Matias <feliciano matias free fr>
>