Can you post a link, please? I am looking at the RedHat store (https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html) and I don't see quite the same thing... the prices do seem a bit higher but I don't see anything about separate costs for Cluster, GFS, etc.
I do remember reading that they were changing the number of allowd virtual guests, which I was not happy about. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Hoover Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 8:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [rhelv6-list] Redhat 6 New Pricing Scheme = crap 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. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
