On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 08:34:44AM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > Forgive me for beating a .... however, I am trying to make a decision as to > whether ES will meet my needs. > > My questions, not that it probably matters, is for an educational environment. > Please correct me if my statements are incorrect. > > Just to be clear, without violating any license requirement, I can buy a boxed > set of ES. I can then reproduce and give my students copies of the binary, > source, and documentation CDs. No. Not all the software on the CDs is freely distributable. > > The support contract does have limitations, but they only void the > > support contract, not your right to use the software. > > The boxed set will come with a year of RHN which will provide me with security > and bug updates. I can renew the RHN for $179/year thereafter. Again, no. RHEN for ES is $349 year without phone/web support. WS (the workstation product) is $179/year. > > If you want support and update access through RHEN, you must abide > > by the terms of the agreement. That means paying for every RHEL- > > WS/ES/AS system you have. > > I assume that ES RHN could be configured to store the binary rpm on the > machine being updated. > > Now, are you saying that it would violate the terms of the RHN license for me > to use something like current, based on the saved rpms, to create my own RHN > server for my students to use in the lab? That is correct - it would be a violation of the agreement. > Where in the lifetime of the enterprise system is the current release (i.e., > how soon before a new release will require an upgrade)? It's on the web site but I don't see after a 30-second peek. I believe that 3.0 is targetted for a release sometime this fall, but there is no charge for the upgrade - your support contract includes all updates, not just bug fixes. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
