Fedora 4 XEN and Kernel 2.4xenU

[Russell Coker]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:34, Nicolas Mailhot 
<Nicolas.Mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> If you are a dev shop building apps on top of Oracle (apps that will
> then be sold to wealthy corporations that will shell $$$$ for Oracle
> licenses) Oracle will let you install as many Oracle setups as you like
> (they realise this helps selling their products)
>
> If you want to host these free developer instances on RHEL Red Hat will
> enforce through up2date a full license per dev/test system.

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/compare/server/
$349 list price for ES basic edition doesn't sound too expensive really.

If you have a large number of machines then the thing to do is to call sales 
and get a quote, there are bulk discounts.

> Especially if you try to optimise 
> hardware occupation by having multiple separate system images (one for
> every Oracle version you want to support, for example) and RHN wants to
> charge you one license per system image (even though they are all on the
> same physical hardware and can not be run separately)

Fair point.  Have you spoken to sales about this?

> Now since you can't run RHEL, you will run FC or Centos or whatever. But
> once you've qualified your product on this other Linux version, how long
> do you think it will take some beancounter to realise you can sell your
> product on this other Linux system, and avoid paying RH altogether ?
> (remember, less $$$ for RH = more customer $$$ available for your part
> of the system)

Selling Oracle on Fedora or Centos is not an option.  Oracle doesn't support 
them, so anyone who pays for Oracle will want to pay for RHEL.

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