Re: Thoughts on Fedora

From: Thomas Smith (tom_at_openadventures.org)
Date: 10/25/03

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:11:00 -0700

    Jason Dixon wrote:

    >On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:50, Ed Wilts wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>My home system will be going to Red Hat Professional Workstation. My
    >>copy has already shipped. It's based on RHEL 3 WS, sells for $82
    >>(buy.com) and it includes a full year of RHN for updates. IMO, it's a
    >>nice upgrade from my 7.1/RHN configuration before and a reasonable
    >>price (effectively $22 if you're used to paying $60/yr anyway).
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Were you able to find anything detailed about Pro Workstation? The Red
    >Hat website (http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/) is fairly
    >non-descript.
    >
    My biggest issue here is that one of the selling points for RHL was that
    you get all the OS FREE (along with Apache, Samba, Bind, etc).
    Commercial support was available. I convinced my customers to subscribe
    to RHN (most did so at $60/month). And some were showing interest in Red
    Hat's web-based monitoring interface (don't recall the URL but monitors
    CPU load, disk space, and much more).

    Now, to get similar commercial support in a RHL release that /includes/
    the same server tools they're used to they'll have to drop $350 (the Pro
    Workstation doesn't include any server software--according to Red Hat's
    site). Now the "value" of Linux is starting to fade for them.

    This is unfortunate. I was absolutely willing to pay for their RHN and
    monitoring services--this has incredible value to me. I haven't seen how
    or if similar options will be available for Fedora but they've made it
    clear that /no commercial support/ is available. 

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