Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

Le sam 30/08/2003 à 20:40, Don MacAskill a écrit :
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
>  > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >> So you are saying that you buy an additional RHN license besides the 
> RHN license
>  >> that comes with AS?  So you want less support than what comes with 
> "Standard
>  >> Edition"?  To me it sounds like you are buying more than you need 
> to, but maybe
>  >> I don't understand.
>  >>
>  >> Dan
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  > If you look at the invoice RedHat provides, they are separate product 
> numbers and you pay for them separately.  What I want is to be able to 
> take a RedHat AS 3.0 cd, install it on a server (at home or at work, 
> which I believe is legal??) and purchase support+rhn for those 
> servers/workstations that I wish to have supported, but be able to buy 
> JUST RHN for those devices I don't want/need tech support.
>  >
> 
> 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 believe, and there's no one-time options.  It includes 
> software images (RHEL AS CDs), support (web, phone, SLA, etc), and 
> software updates (RHN up2date, etc).
> 
> I would love to, instead, have the option to pay some reduced rate 
> ($999?  $599?) per year and simply get the software (RHEL AS) and 
> updates (up2date).  Even some mechanism where it's the full $1499 for 
> the first year and some reduced rate for just RHN updates for each 
> successive year would be a step in the right direction.
> 
> As it is, I would end up paying some large $$ amount for support that I 
> would never use.  I want the software (Piranha especially) that AS 
> supports, and I want the nice warm comfort blanket of RedHat's 
> installers, up2date, etc.  I'm willing to pay for it, whatever RedHat 
> feels is fair.  They do a lot of work to make such a great distro, and 
> deserve to get paid.
> 
> But I don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth when I'm paying for 
> support.  Software, fine.  People support, not fine.
> 
> Sure would be great if RedHat offered some in-between.
> 
> Don
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