APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Bill Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:34, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 17:46, Féliciano Matias uttered:
> > http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/es/
> > Workstation RHEL for small business $179/year
> > http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ws/
> >
> > And you get 5 years support :
> > http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/rhlas_errata_policy.html
> >
> > But you can use RHL for free with one year support.
> 
> This doesn't work for us, since our company's "gimmik" is that we provide the 
> support for the end user.  Also, many of our customers require functionality 
> of AS, but can't afford the price.  There seems to be way too much stripped 
> out of ES to make it a viable platform.

If *you* are doing the support, why pay for RH support?
Why not take the publicly available SRPMs for AS, and build it yourself?
Then install that and provide the support you would otherwise provide.

Depending on *which* functionality in AS you need, this should work
quite well for you.

-- 
Bill Anderson
RHCE #807302597505773
bill at noreboots.com