What does the $250 for Solaris include? Last I checked they charge extra for C/C++ tools like most other UNIX distributions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Holden" <dh@xxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:16 AM Subject: Re: Fedora and the System Administrator > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
