Have you seen what redhat are charging now for rhel ?

<http://news.com.com/Dell:+Red+Hat+needs+to+lower+prices/2100-7344_3-5482234.html?tag=st_lh




Never let it be said that its only microsoft after your hard earned $$$$


Pauly

 

Are there any Redhat Enterprise Linux customers in this group ?

 

What are they charging ?
Its not in the article you linked to.

 

yes, well, kinda, my work uses it.

 

What sort of value for money do they get ?

Do Redhat give them good service ?

 

I dont think that we have had to call them yet.
Dont really know, it's not my area.

 

I would assume the service would have to be pretty good as that is what
you are paying for after all. You can get a rebranded version of RHEL
without actually paying for it at http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ so if
you don't need the support you don't need to pay for it.

 

Hi there,

Why not? They are the undisputed market leaders in corrupt capitalism...

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/index.html

There are some prices for differing configs...if you had an x86 based
server with 50 desktop clients it looks like around US$6000 per annum
would be the damage for fairly comprehensive support. What would MS
Server 2003 + 50 desktop clients sting you?

The article was saying that cheaper distros are starting to eat into the
market for RHEL, so until you can show cheaper pricing for an equivalent
MS solution I'd say you're just trolling...

 

I know. That's why I dumped them.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

Difference is that if you don't want to use Red Hat, then don't. You're
not locked in. Go use something else.

Dave

 

if you dont want to use Windows you dont have to either... only a moron
would think that they are locked into using MS products.

 

ahhh gotcha, tired... need help with these things sometimes

no need to answer "no-one" here really is there?
although as most if not all MS products can be substituted for either
other closed or open source products, someone could no doubt argue that
Windows isn't a requirement either.

 

LOL - the vast majority of businesses are therefore staffed with morons.


Divine

 

What he means is, Redhat are not the only source of Linux, even for the
enterprise.
Who else produces Windows, for any market?

--
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My real e-mail is mattATp00leDOTnet

 

not all business's think that they are locked in, some just dont know of
alternatives, although that is also kinda their fault...

 

It's not like Linux is low-profile. Five years ago, yes, it wasn't
unreasonable that a business operator might not have heard that there
were choices beyond Apple and MS. Now, though, there's no excuse. A
responsible business owner, and particularly responsible officers of a
company, should know and should be looking.
The expense of MS software simply cannot be justified for many staff -
particularly productivity software, when OOo is quite good enough for
all that most desk jockeys need to achieve.

--
Matthew Poole Auckland, New Zealand
"Veni, vidi, velcro...
I came, I saw, I stuck around"

My real e-mail is mattATp00leDOTnet

 

yes - they stick with the tried and proven MS software

you don't see them all rushing out to buy Macs do you

 

Given the price, no. But it costs nothing to trial OOo, if you give it
to people who're willing to try it rather than bitching that it's
different.
Officers of companies have a legal duty to spend that company's money
wisely. Buying MS just because it's MS could be construed as
dereliction of that duty, if there's no specific reason for requiring
the MS product - the majority of users will get no further into a word
processor's features than changing fonts, columns and tabs. OOo can
even handle mail merging, and is fully compatible with the majority of
features in MS document formats.

--
Matthew Poole Auckland, New Zealand
"Veni, vidi, velcro...
I came, I saw, I stuck around"

My real e-mail is mattATp00leDOTnet

 

Yup - tried and proven... to be buggy, virus-prone shite.


Divine

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is a WOMAN.

 

by communist whingers!

plenty of reasons - like, best software on the market