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Jeremy Hogan jhogan at redhat.com
Sat Oct 25 00:44:24 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:06, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:15:05AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > 
> > What we need is continued vulnerability-patching for core releases for a 
> > long time.  While that might seem to make us primary candidates for the 
> > RHEL versions, with cabinets with 50 servers apiece and annual 
> > subscription charges that model will never work for us.
> 
> Do you seriously believe that you're going to pay fill price for the
> Entreprise line if you call Red Hat, tell them you have n servers
> (where n is a whole lot) and ask for a discount?
> 

Ding! Nobody publishes volume discounting unless they want folks not
having the requisite volume to still lobby for the rock bottom deal.

--jeremy





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