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The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux?
An Anonymous Coward asks: "I work at a company with a large number of Linux servers in the data center. We're currently evaluating what distribution we want to use moving forward. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise from 7.2 would cost ~$350k just for the systems we already have deployed. Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions. Also, we don't have Oracle on any of these systems, but we will need it in the future. This leaves us with rather limited options. I'm interested hearing what other Slashdot readers are running, and planning?"
Debian works well and the price is right! Wonderful install procedure too.
And I'm planning to go home and play America's Army.
I may need to reboot 3-6 hours from now, but I've never had to learn how to edit a configuration file.
(Disclaimer: That's not really true, but you get the point.)
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does that cost include count the SCO license?
oh come on, thats not flamebait!
I, for one, welcome our new RedHat overlords.
*giggle giggle, snort snort* I made a funny just like the others that used this quote did!
Debian. Or Slackware. Just be sure to have a copy of either Knoppix or Slackware Live CD handy. Write down what the CD auto-detected. Select appropriate odules when installing proper distro.
And MySQL for the database.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
If you are sick of RedHat's extortive licensing fees that you instead switch to Windows XP... :)
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We're currently evaluating what distribution we want to use moving forward.
Well, you could install just about any distribution on a laptop and hook it up to one of those Evolution Robotics laptop robots. Those go forward (and backward, and sideways) quite easily. Oh, you meant in the future? Well, why didn't you say so?
Pointy-Haired Boss: "We need to do this on a going-forward basis!"
Dilbert: "Thanks for ruling out time travel. You're usually not that helpful."
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
At $350,000, you have a very interesting definition of free. ;)
But this puts you in violation of your support license, resulting in its termination and therefore not being supported if they catch you.
However, this will result in the same level of support as if you still had a support license.
Never take recommendations from anyone who spells the word with two c's and just one m.
Laugh stupid, it's a joke.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
For $300k/year I will support it.
--- Hindsight is 20/20, but walking backwards is not the answer.
He said the data center is moving forward, not dying!
Here's what you do:
1. Hire 1-5 high school Linux geeks part-time.
2. Pay them 15-20k a year. They will rejoice! Sweeten the deal with an unlimited supply of Twinkies, Mountain Dew and Hot Pockets.
3. Sit back.
4. In your next conference with the big cheese, tell him how smart you are for solving the company's IT problems.
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
$350k/yar
Wow, $350k a yar?
You could make some sick money as a pirate!
Ask what you can do for Debian. ...and your good will will return to you.
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At my office, we have - I kid you not - interrupted our RHES evaluation because
a) we lacked enough licenses
b) 'evaluation licences' were expiring
Madness. Do they not realize that they need people sneaking unofficial unsupported copies in as departmental and development servers?
We can buy a 1-way Sun (with Solaris, of course) for under $2k with our volume discount - RHAS is more expensive!