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. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 5-8058 Ta-03 SM-261 MailStop P208 DP 17U Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
