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Red Hat Announces Enterprise Linux

Posted by michael on from the aka-expensive-linux dept.

OldBen writes "RedHat has announced the product stable to replace the mainstream releases for enterprise use. RedHat Enterprise Linux AS replaces Advanced Server (with quite a price hike to go along), ES is targeted at "entry-level" servers, and WS is for workstations. See the details at RedHat's website."

3 of 433 comments (clear)

  1. What price hike ?? by dr-suess-fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, But....

    Our shop has been evaluating the purchase of AS for some time now. It's been 1500US/yr and 2500US/yr
    for a few months at least.

    This latest offering is only adding ES and WS for
    those who still need/want support but don't want the
    full enterprise price.

  2. Nice support options by jarrod.smith · · Score: 5, Informative
    The top tier costs $2500 and you get one year of 24x7 support with a one-hour response time and unlimited incedents.

    For a mission-critical business system (like one that MAKES REAL MONEY for a company) this is not a bad price to pay to keep running.

    ALso, if you've only got one or two boxes like this, paying RedHat $2500 a year would be a lot cheaper than keeping a really good UNIX sysadmin around.

    I think if you look at the competition (Microsoft and Commercial UNIX vendors), this would be pretty good deal.

  3. Red Hat is inching up by LinuxParanoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Red Hat has definitely been inching up the scale.

    Journal filesystems hitting maturity, logical volume management, asynchronous I/O for the database guys, TPC-C benchmarks (unaudited though?), improved clustering

    There are still things Linux lacks (last I checked) that the conventional UNIX vendors have added to their systems over the last five years: things like hot-swap memory, hot-swap CPUs, memory failure resiliency (OS quits using memory if recoverable but warning-sign single-bit ECC memory errors get too great), kernel hot-patching, multipath IO, workload management stuff, and ever-more SMP/NUMA scalability.

    Still, seems like Red Hat is making great strides. Hat's off! (ugh, sorry about that, couldn't resist. ;-)

    --LP