Has everyone seen the totally new pricing scheme for RHEL6?
Gone are the days of simply having two versions of RHEL server.
Now Redhat has decided they want to create a complicated pricing scheme where
everything is a different tier and everything is an addon.
Examples:
* Pricing is now per-socket-pair, where on the RHEL5-based model, Advanced
Platform was for any server with more sockets.
* Advanced Platform (at $1500, or $2500 with premium support) previously
came with Cluster and GFS, now Cluster is addtional and GFS is also additional.
* Standard previously allowed 4 guests (plus hypervisor), whereas it now
only allows one guest at the same pricing, support for 4 guests costs about 80%
more.
* Advanced Platform (at $1500, or $2500 with premium support) previously
allowed unlimited guests, now it costs $3249 per socket-pair with
This is TOTALLY CRAZY...for example:
A virtualisation cluster, using 8-socket dual-core servers.
On RHEL 5-era pricing, this was costing $1500 per server per year.
With the new pricing, it would cost ($1999(unlimited
guests)+$399(cluster)+$799(GFS))*4 processor pairs
= $12788 per server per year, **********an 850% increase**********
What is Redhat marketing smoking?
Not to mention that frankly, I don't want to have to implement all the changes
to my inventory system to keep track of all this crap to make sure I am paying
for everything we are using. Do you ever think of that?
Sorry...but even here at a fortune 50, $12k vs CENTOS will be an easy sell.
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