John Meagher said: > I would like to understand some things--- > > Where can I learn about Red Hat's new vision for where > they are going and how they will get there? > > Where can I find detailed product datasheets that tell > me what the new Red Hat products consist of, and > which packages are supported under the various > agreements? In particular, what are the limits of Enterprise > WS that RedHat will support? Can you get help under the > annual agreement for BIND, Postfix, Open Office, etc? http://www.redhat.com/support/sla/na.html > Is there an available published Red Hat pricelist with all the > products, terms and conditions in one place? http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/ > Where can I find a good linux vs. FreeBSD comparison > for use as a server OS? > > Is there a recent article on Total Cost of ownership that > takes the new Red Hat model into consideration? > (Especially compared with MS) Good luck on those last two. Any comparision will be biased one way or another, even if it is not intentional. Besides, what good would it do for your corp to bring in a bunch of FreeBSD machines if the admins only know MS Windows. Or all your admins know Linux, and you want to bring in MS Windows machines. That also throws out the whole TCO issue because of the additional training. Every situation is different, so the best thing to do is take some time and evaluate these issues for your situation. This should be easy to do since FreeBSD and Linux are free (as in beer). And IIRC you can get 120-day trial software from Microsoft pretty cheap to do your testing. -- William Hooper -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
