Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[John <spam debian merseine nu>]

On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:00, Steinar Skjelanger wrote:
> Féliciano Matias wrote:
> > 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
>
> When logging in to the second url, it says:
>
> "(*)Enterprise Entitlements provide a level of service. Subscribing to
> this will give you access for Red Hat Linux, but not Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux."
>
> That means $96/year is _not_ for RHEL, just RHL.
>
> I would like to add that I'm in the same position as a lot of other
> people on this list - I don't want to pay RedHat for them to have a lot
> of support people sitting around waiting for a phonecall from me that
> will never be made. I'd like to have the software and a steady stream of
> neccessary updates for a sensible amount of time (3-5 years). That's all
> I need, and that's all I want to pay for.

For many, WS is ample, but at $179 pa (it's clearly under the heading "Annual 
Subscription Pricing and Availability," plus RHEN, or even without the RHEN 
subscription, it's a pretty hard sell against Windows for uncertain 
compatibility with "all those other PC users."

Those compatibility concerns are well-founded - a couple of weeks ago my bank 
told me I can't use its Internet banking facility unless I run Windows or 
(maybe) MacOS.

Now, those prices at http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/ might seem 
awfully cheap if you bought a maxed-out X440, or a pSeries or iSeries or 
zSeries computer from IBM or equivalent from HP, Sun etc, but for many PC 
users those prices exceed the cost of the hardware it's likely to run on.

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