On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:34:04PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:53:18AM -0400, Michael George wrote: > > software engineering (primarily) not for SysAdmin. It looks like the ES > > package is what we'll need for the two intel boxes, but that's still $1,600 > > for the two machines to run ES with updates via RHN (do the updates still show > > Yet another person who can't read or do math...Sigh... > > The basic download edition of ES includes 1 year of Red Hat Network > updates. This costs $349 per system. For your 2 systems, that's *not* > $1,600 but half that. Let's see... Basic Edition provides 90-days of Installation and Configuration support (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm ET), and is available via download only. vs. Standard Edition provides a full year of Standard support (includes Monday-Friday 9am-9pm phone support with 4 hour response (9am-5pm outside North America) and a one year subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Network. Customers ordering Standard Edition will receive a full boxed-product with CDs and printed documentation and are also able to download the software if desired. Okay, so with the basic edition I don't get the RHN subscription. That takes $350 to $410 per machine. And I want to use this "long EoL" release for more than the one year, so add on the $60/yr. after that, per machine. So while you're right, it's not $1600/machine, but to have it for 3 years would be 350 + 60*3 = $530/machine. Heck, the first year of errata shouldn't cost anything because you can get free errata for the RHL9 for that year. -- A billion seconds ago Harry Truman was president. A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth. A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
