On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
On 27 Aug 2003, Howard Owen wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:27, William Hooper wrote:
I think Red Hat should drop license fees for their WS product. The window of opportunity is open for Linux on the desktop, due to the maturation of the technology, Microsoft's gouging on licenses, and the lack of compelling new technology upon which they can piggyback new
Sure and Red Hat can go belly up in 2 years because no-one is paying them for all the work they do.
I think people are saying they'd like a third option in between RHLP and RHEL WS, something where the desktop is long-lived (say, three years maintenance) but doesn't have bundled support. Right now, the closest there
I think that is the $179 version of the WS. It is 179/year... and could probably go down in large orders. So a complete cost would be $537 for 3 years support. Having done a lots of internal maintenance for older servers here... the cost per server seemed pretty good.