Re: Red Hat EW Licensing

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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:29:20AM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> 
> Ed Wilts wrote:
> > Actually, you're not close.  For $179/year, you get the basic EW
> > subscription.  This has no server tools - no bind, no dhcpd, nada.  It's
> > a desktop.
> 
> Are you sure on that. I don't think I've seen a linux distribution 
> without mail, DNS, http, samba, NFS, or DHCP in years. I cannot get in 
> to check the SRPM list for EW right now.

I got the same impression from their description of the Enterprise Workstation
distro.

> But, asuming that EW doesn't come with those apps. How much is it going 
> to cost to add them, using the Red Hat SRPMS? How much to add them to 
> Windows? Can you even add them to Windows? Does XP have an NFS, bind, 
> and dhcp server available?

Now this is quite true.  But then again, you will have to stick with packages
that match the system of EW and you probably won't be getting any security
upgrades with those SRPMS...

-Michael

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