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Redhat Reports 90% Return Subscription Rate

Posted by timothy on from the self-reported-numbers dept.

jasonbowen writes "In this article from ZDnet, Redhat claims a 90% return subscription rate for its Enterprise line. Sounds like Redhat is doing just fine providing a quality product for people that want to pay the money for it." (And for people who don't want to pay money for it, too.)

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  1. I Miss RedHat Network by DeckerEgo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After months of therapy, I finally came to terms with the fact that I'm upset because RHN is gone. They locked my entitlements and prefs, and so now I can't manage the scores of machines I have deployed. I'm reasonably okay with the whole Enterprise-Fedora concept where there is one supported enterprise product and one free personal edition, but I just feel kinda worried about when my RHN subscription goes away for good and another buffer overflow exploit comes around.

  2. Subscription by hcuar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't a yearly subscription the same thing Micro$oft considered for their software model, and people brought their pitchforks and torches?

  3. Re:If they're doing so well.. by Erwos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What do you think Fedora is?

    It's not like RedHat just handed them a site and told them to get on with it. RedHat employees are very actively involved with the whole thing, and are contributing tons of code.

    -Erwos

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    Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
  4. Doublethink. by Performer+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is a pretty blatant example of doublethink propaganda. Red Had drops support and release for RHx, and we see an article singing their praises on how great a job they're dowing throwing Fedora over the fence because they can claim some customer retention on the Enterprise front.

    No it's not a great job, the reasonably priced support option is gone, and there's nothing they offer between outlandishly expensive enterprise support and free no support. For an Operating system they mostly package, not author, they are doing a really bad job at providing affordable support options or stable releases that the ordinary user might want (like the vast majority of Linux users using RHx who were abandoned). Of course they have explicitly said they're not interested in that business, (probably abandoned to protect margins in the Enterprise business). Why anyone would pretend this is all rosy and RH are doing a great job after leaving such a gaping wound on the Linux desktop is beyond me.