Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[Don MacAskill <redhat-taroon onethumb com>]

Féliciano Matias wrote:

> > If I'm understanding the issue correctly, I'm in the same boat.
> >
> > I'd like to buy and use RHEL AS.  It costs $1499 as an annual 
> > subscription,
>
>
> No. It's $1499 for RHEL AS + 1 year support.
> Next it's $96/year subscription for rhn.
> http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/
> https://rhn.redhat.com/network/sales/index.pxt

I assume you're saying that you can buy RHEL AS for $1499 for the first 
year, then maintain updates for $96/year thereafter, and not that RHN 
subscription is an extra $96/year on top of the $1499.

Either way, that's not what RedHat's pages, including the ones you've 
linked, suggest.  For the former situation, it seems pretty clear that 
the $1499 is 'a per-system, annual subscription' 
(http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/).  For the latter, it 
looks like RHN Enterprise comes with your $1499 first year price (same 
page).

If I'm wrong about either choice, RedHat is not doing a good job selling 
their product and describing their pricing and offerings.  I assumed 
from the wording on all the pages that using RHN AS for 3 years would 
cost me $4500 per system.  If, instead, it's $1691, that's a very 
different story.   Much more stomachable.   Can anyone else weigh in on 
this?

However, there's still the issue of my paying $1499 for software and 
"human" service (web, email, phone) that I don't want.  I'd rather just 
pay for the software + updates.  I'm willing to pay a healthy price to 
cover RedHat's costs of developming, testing, maintaining, etc.  But I'm 
capable of doing all of my own technical support at this stage, and I'm 
a cost-conscious business.

Don
http://onethumb.smugmug.com/