Re: Red Hat subscriptions beat expectations

From: Mogh (mogh_at_sonof)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:31:12 -0500

"Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@frisurf.no> wrote in message
news:slrnbs67v4.ajh.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org...
> In article <vs5pnja54bfqdc@corp.supernews.com>, Mogh wrote:
> > I predict a significant drop in renewals in 2004 due to RH EOL
subscriptions
> > ending. I suspect the Enterprise number will drop also since these
> > disgruntled customers typically also have the RH line with some
> > subscriptions in place.
> Those number were from the high end(RHAS/RHEL) , they won't be
> EOL'ed.

Correct. The point I was making is these same Enterprise customers also
have an installed base of the RH line including subscriptions for the RH
line. For servers this is not an issue but on the workstation side RH is no
longer cost effective Linux alternative solution.

Chances are actually, more will move to RHEL when
> the community edition goes EOL.
>

I doubt that considering Enterprise customers will need to make a huge
investment in Enterprise licenses in addition to new subscriptions to
replace their RH line workstations.

> --
> Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
> Nils Olav Selåsdal <NOS at Utel.no>
> System Engineer
> UtelSystems a/s
>

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