On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:43 am, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > Holy shit, my boss is gonna can this distro completely! > > > > You may want to convince him to join the Fedora Legacy project. Or, > > if he wants something supported by Red Hat for a longer period, Red > > Hat Enterprise Linux. > > > > > At least with RHL we had *some* stability....*sigh* > > > > Which came at a cost. Who paid for that? > > We did, in a way. > > We ran RHL for small servers (such as our static web server) and RHEL for > serious servers (RHAS 2.1 with Oracle 9i for our database server.) > > The *only* reason that my boss went with RHEL was because I was able to > show him with RHL on small servers that it was stable and powerful. > > There is no way that we're gonna be able to pay for RHEL for all of the > small servers that we maintain. > > Another guy at work has been trying to get us to go to a mixture of True64 > and Solaris. Now that RH is *more* expensive on x86 than Solaris, and my > boss is an old Solaris/SPARC admin....well, you get the idea. > > List price for Solaris 9 Workgroup server is $250 US. > List price for RHEL ES is $349 US. > > Damnit, I love RH and *really* don't like Solaris. *sigh* > > I know that RH is trying to stay profitable. I understand and wish them > the best. They've done an *outstanding* job. I just hope and pray that > they haven't shot themselves in the foot here. I know that we will be > trying to find an alternative before up2date stops working for RH9. :( > > Ben > > If redhat can only stay solvent by charging $349 for there stable linux (remember thats the "cheap" version isn't AS > $1000) I find it very worrying for the competitiveness of Linux generally. In the short term I think they will make more money from people who will find it too costly to move to another OS but in the longer term I think they will lose a lot of business. Dave. -- Dr. David Holden. (Systems Developer) Crystallography Journals Online: <http://journals.iucr.org> Thanks in advance:- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> UK Privacy (R.I.P) : http://www.stand.org.uk/commentary.php3 Public GPG key available on request. -------------------------------------------------------------
