So, what are some of these other services? We would certainly like to know. We're one of the places where keeping all our stuff up at either Progeny's $5/machine/month or their $2500/month unlimited is just too much money (and they were absolutely unwilling to negotiate any type of academic rate). For my home systems, I definitely might consider them, however. On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:03:37PM -0700, Howard B Owen wrote: > There are very economical commercial patch services for legacy systems. > If it's one server, five bucks a month (six month minimum) will get you > Progeny Transition Service support. (http://transition.progeny.com) If > you are planning to upgrade after the spring quarter, it sounds like all > you would need would be sixty bucks. > > That's another thing to consider when thinking about support by Fedora > Legacy for less popular releases. There are commercial services at very > reasonable prices that can take up the slack. Where it gets unreasonable > for an organization with limited resources is when there are hundreds of > servers. If the budget is there, Progenys price of $2500/month for > unlimited servers is pretty reasonable. But academic departments, or > medium to large organizations outside Europe/Asia/North America probably > can't even consider a quarter of that cost. > > The point is, the more popular releases are more likely to be deployed > on a larger number of servers. Apart from the project resource issues, > concentrating on the releases with a greater installed base may provide > most of the value in places where money is tight. > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 11:55, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: > > > > > Quoting Stuart Low <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > >> As for RH8.. :) Why anyone would run it is beyond me and upgrading > > >> to RH9 is painless too (even remotely). :) > > > > > > I run it on a server. > > > > I do, too. It provides Mailman, SquirrelMail, LDAP, NTP, and Squid > > services for a few hundred users. I've got it slated for a summertime > > upgrade, but it's a nonstarter to suggest bringing it down during the > > academic year. > > > > --Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > -- > > > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > -- > Howard Owen - Linux Architect "Even if you are on the right > IBM Global Services - Cisco Linux track, you'll get run over if you > howen@xxxxxxxxx +1-408-853-1381 just sit there." - Will Rogers > > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list -- ******************************** David William Botsch Consultant/Advisor II CCMR Computing Facility dwb7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ******************************** -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
