I beg to differ on RH not making money on the software. After being
annoyed at how quickly 6.2 followed 6.1, I waited until about 3 weeks
ago to buy 6.2. I have 6.1 pro for which I paid roughly $80. I wanted to
continue to using SWS, but now to do that it was going to cost me $179.
I finally bit the bullet. Now three weeks later, I'm having to cough up
another $179 to stay current with 7.0?
a. Why isn't there an significant upgrade program?
b. Why is the price increasing so rapidly?
Don't get me wrong, it is still a tremendous value for the money. I
contend that it's not that much less than some other server OS's - you
just pay for it in smaller increments.
Another question I asked RedHat via email, but received only a
completely non applicable robot response - I was interested in the
RH6.2/Openmail package for my firm. Is 7.0 available with Openmail? For
6.2, that would represent roughly a $12,000 investment. Am I expected to
pay $12,000 every time RH upgrades or is some kind of discount available
for that?
Alan Lehman
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From: Martin Sieben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: RH 70 and $9.95
>
>In the article at cnet
>(http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2841538.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni)
>they say that upgrades and bug fixes get sent to the $9.95 customers. Does
>it mean they won't be freely downloadable any more? If so, then it's not
>what I would call good news.
>
Not to be rude, but why not get the news from the horses mouth? Go to
www.redhat.com and take a look. Everything is as normal. The basic
services(what your used too) are still free. Extra nifty features will
cost
you the monthly fee. Corporate support features cost more, and the top
level support costs a fairly large amount. It's all very sane, and easy
to
understand via the info on their site. Redhat is looking to make money
via
service offerings, not their software itself. Hope this clears things
up a
bit.
Jeff Hogg
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