Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[shane stixrud org]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Don MacAskill wrote:

> 
> 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).
> 

I am 99% sure that you pay $1499 and that includes 1 year of phone/web 
support and 1 year of RHN update service, it also includes the cd media 
and manuals.  If you have a RedHat 2.1 AS CD, It is my understanding that 
you can install it on as many servers as you like and run it for as long 
as you like.  What you can't do is call up redhat and ask for support or 
sign up for a RHN account.

I want to be able to sign up for a RHN account without signing up for 
support.

Shane