On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:08:24AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 09:15 9/23/2003, you wrote: > >Ed mentioned that perhaps such an offering is on the horizon. I'm > >struggling to imagine how they will differentiate it from Fedora and > >Enterprise. > > How's this for a thought? Make SS available for $99/year. Include > everything a small business server needs (which I think makes it equivalent > to ES), offer automatic updates via RHN, installed package tracking, plus a > few (three, five?) incidents of WEB-ONLY support per year. No phone support > at all.
I've suggested to them that from a personal point of view, $199 plus RHN @ $60/yr might be viable. That makes the 3-year cost about $380 and you're coming in at about $300. I'd be somewhat satisfied with either option. Of course, people are used to paying $0 plus $60/year for RHN, so either option is more money for them and will cause some customers to leave Red Hat. I'm not a marketing guy either and whether this results in a net gain or loss for Red Hat is well beyond my skill set. There's a strong likelihood that neither option will actually be announced (if I was that lucky, I'd be richer than I am!), but speculating can be fun at times. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
