Fedora vs RHEL

[Thomas Cameron]

On 04/15/2013 11:12 AM, Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>
>>> The annoying thing is, I'd *gladly* pay Red Hat for support, if they'd
>>> charge me a sensible amount
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Horse feathers.
>>
>> You can get a personal, developer subscription for $99:
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/rhel_developer_suite.html
>>
>> Alternatively, you can get a self-support subscription for commercial use
>> for $349:
>
> You appear to have not read my message. I want support. The developer
> subscription explicitly states "No support is provided with this
> product subscription". Not that I'd have been able to find it on the
> web site in the first place, had you not pointed me at it. Equally,
> the $349 suscription also comes without support. For me, those two
> options provide precisely zero benefit over CentOS.
>
>> RHEL does not start at thousands of dollars, that's just false.
>
> You do appear to be correct on that. I'm sure that when I last looked,
> it was going to cost me 4 figures to get support. But it does look
> like I can do so for $799/year. My point still stands. That's more
> than I, as an individual, and also most small businesses can justify.

If $799 per year for support of the infrastructure that you run your 
business on is too much, I'd say your business is pretty freaking shaky.

I've personally started two small businesses, and I've been involved in 
several other startups. Even on a pretty skinny shoestring, we did not 
trust our business critical systems to no support or community support.

My experience may be different from some, but I don't think that $799, 
or even several thousand dollars for multiple servers, is exorbitant at all.

We're talking about the core infrastructure of your business here.

TC