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Red Hat, SUSE Announce Educational Discounts

Posted by simoniker on from the schools-and-penguins dept.

geoff313 writes "Good news week for Linux users in the education field, as both Red Hat and SUSE have announced that they will provide academic discounts in an effort to attract "students and educational institutions." According to this article published on CNET, while both companies have decided to offer discounts, they are each going about it a different way. SUSE has begun to offer "schools, students, universities and nonprofit customers a discount of more than 40 percent through two sales partners, CCV Software and Ricis." Red Hat, on the other hand, plans to offer two new versions of its distributions, based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) line. The first, aimed at students and named Red Hat Academic Desktop, will sell for $25 and is based on RHEL WS. The second, to be sold to schools and named Red Hat Academic Server, will sell for $50 and is based off RHEL ES. Both products will include online updates (presumably through its Red Hat Network) but will not include telephone support. Bulk pricing is also available, and administrative licenses will be available soon."

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  1. Re:I thought universities just downloaded it for f by MSG · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stability, in terms of having a consistant platform for an extended period of time, is worth a lot. This is particularly true when you've got a limited staff trying to support hundreds of terminals around a large campus. Distributions that you can "download for free" don't offer the guaranteed, extended lifetime that you're going to get from RHEL. At least, not with continuing security updates.

  2. Site Licence Windows not really free by SpaFF · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uhm, that's not how it works. Your University shelled out a ton of cash for students to be able to have those free copies of Windows.

    And if you read the article you would have seen that Redhat is also offering Universities a site licence deal: $2,500 for unlimited copies of WS. That's a hell of a lot cheaper than what your University paid for an MS site license.

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  3. Re:Not really clear. by bhtooefr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Keep in mind, SuSE isn't selling custom versions of their distro - they're selling the same box as the SLPro9.0 box, just with a sticker saying "Academic" on it, and a MSRP of $50 instead of $80: http://www.ccvsoftware.com/c/@4PyjmvbDbxkQg/Pages/ product.html?record@CDSU903

    What sucks is that they need a student ID, which my high school does not use (although, they could do what they did last time I needed a student ID - make a temporary one), and you must be a full-time college student to get the discount as a college student (I'm in a program where I go to college while I'm in high school, but I'm not going full-time to my college yet... ARRGH!)

  4. Re:Not really clear. by bhtooefr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it's a re-labeled SuSE 9 Pro box. You get everything you get with SuSE 9 Pro, just it costs $30 less.