On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 16:11, Thomas Smith wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > My biggest issue here is that one of the selling points for RHL was that > you get all the OS FREE (along with Apache, Samba, Bind, etc). > Commercial support was available. I convinced my customers to subscribe > to RHN (most did so at $60/month). And some were showing interest in Red > Hat's web-based monitoring interface (don't recall the URL but monitors > CPU load, disk space, and much more). > > Now, to get similar commercial support in a RHL release that /includes/ > the same server tools they're used to they'll have to drop $350 (the Pro > Workstation doesn't include any server software--according to Red Hat's > site). Now the "value" of Linux is starting to fade for them. > I should have such problems with my clients. Sounds to me like you have a terrific opportunity to provide some value added service and make more money in the best interests of your clients. Go make some lemonaide!
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