[WBEL-users] Dell: Red Hat needs to lower prices

[John Lowry]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, William Hooper wrote:

>
> Not really the place for your rant, but a correction.
>
> John Hinton said:
> [snip]
> > One can buy once, a Microsoft server package for about what
> > Redhat wants for two years of RHEL. At the end of that two years the M$
> > package is yours. At the end of that two years you are still paying every
> > year of the RH package.
>
> Wrong.  There is nothing that says you can't buy RHEL with the year of
> updates, then after that year stop your RHN subscription and roll your own
> updates.

Yes there is.  The license says you can't run RHEL after your license expires.

> > And as I always have to ask:  Did you even bother to call sales and see
> where their volume discounts start?
>

Press reports, at least, are that volume discounts would not be offered.





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