License Issue

[ismail bushra]

1- thanks a lot.
2- I'm reading now about centos. In our business we need an opensource
O.Sand our need is install our application ( e-business software and
we need
only Internet ) in hundered Pc's and if we using M.S our project will
freeze. we trying to test and decide what opensource O.S is better for us.
3- what about SUSE
again thankx.

On Jan 13, 2008 8:17 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:

> > Hi all,
> > we are trying to install RHEL in our pc's we have hundered of pc's in
> > different location but it's owned by only one company, so my question
> is:
> >
> > should we buy only one RHEL or its depend about  how many pc's we have
> and
> > if there any way to read full license for RHEL.
>
> My understanding is that you need a license for every single computer you
> install RHEL on.  It is not the installation really, but in order to
> use/receive their updates in binary form legally, you must have the
> appropriate number of licenses.  I believe that there is a discounted
> price available for HPC compute nodes as well.
>
> > I am talk specially about RHEL 5.0 or further official release. thanks
>
> Another viable option is CentOS <http://www.centos.org>.  CentOS is a
> rebuild of RHEL from sources that Red Hat provides in accordance to the
> GPL, and because they are a true open source company.  CentOS takes great
> care to provide the closest thing you can get to RHEL without buying RHEL.
> I have been using it for years, both personally and professionally and
> I've never once had a problem with it.  If I am putting software on a
> system that requires RHEL for support (i.e. Oracle, WebSphere, etc.) I buy
> RHEL.  If I am building a machine that I use for network scanning,
> interesting uses of apache that Red Hat won't support, or testing
> machines, I use CentOS. There is no formal CentOS support, but the mailing
> list is very active.  I suppose you could also contact a company that
> provides commerical support for CentOS as well.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Barry
>
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