Why don't _you_ offer them commercial support? That's the beatuy of Linux. If RedHat won't offer them commercial support, there's no reason you can't, or another organization. Jon On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas Smith wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > >On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:50, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > > > > >>My home system will be going to Red Hat Professional Workstation. My > >>copy has already shipped. It's based on RHEL 3 WS, sells for $82 > >>(buy.com) and it includes a full year of RHN for updates. IMO, it's a > >>nice upgrade from my 7.1/RHN configuration before and a reasonable > >>price (effectively $22 if you're used to paying $60/yr anyway). > >> > >> > > > >Were you able to find anything detailed about Pro Workstation? The Red > >Hat website (http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/) is fairly > >non-descript. > > > 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. > > This is unfortunate. I was absolutely willing to pay for their RHN and > monitoring services--this has incredible value to me. I haven't seen how > or if similar options will be available for Fedora but they've made it > clear that /no commercial support/ is available. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
