Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

Le sam 30/08/2003 à 22:00, Steinar Skjelanger a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Damn ! I am very confused.
It seems i don't understand anything about RHEL/RHN.
Forget me :-)
Sorry for the annoyance.

> 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.
> 

$1499 per year is a lot of money.
$7495 for 5 years is a lot lot of money. Especially if the server works
without any trouble from several years. And RedHat provide only security
fix for the last two years :
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/rhlas_errata_policy.html
Now i understand the problem.

> Regards,
> 
> Steinar Skjelanger
> 
> 
> 
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