On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:48, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:43, Randall J. Parr wrote:
> > I have small business clients in exactly this position and they are
> > very, very unhappy with the recent news. They have been willing to spend
> > money to buy Red Hat and RHN subscriptions for their servers. They had
> > been forming plans to move their Windows workstations to Red Hat. Those
> > plans have all come to a screeching halt.
>
> Don't still see the problem... You're not forced to upgrade, you're not
> forced to buy Advanced Server. What's the problem? If you wan't
> long-term support, but Advanced Server.
His problem is that Advanced server cost $1500 dollars per year, even
Redhat ES costs $349 dollars per year.
Now I suspect he pitched to his client that they could go the redhat
route and get security updates for $60 per year and not be forced to
upgrade on a yearly basis.
Now he finds that to offer this kind of stability to his clients they
are going to have to pay between 6 and 25 times as much.
Now if you work in a company where a 6-25 time price hike doesn't matter
that much I'm really happy for you, not all people do though.
I can understand why redhat have changed their product pricing, after
all to support all older operating systems was costing increasing
amounts of money, I just have difficult to the level of the cost change
and the brief period (12 months) of stability for the now named
"community product".
Especially since redhat got a foothold in our business based on the
earlier model.
Regards,
Dave.
>
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