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Redhat Reports 90% Return Subscription Rate
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.)
If they are doing so well as the report suggests, maybe they can dedicate some more time to developing the free (money) ones as well, to entice new people to Red Hat who might be buying the enterprise additions.
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kind of like the windows server line - the basic license only allows 5 clients to connect at a time.
Actually, if you have only one network card - you can't connect more that one computer at a time. Ethernet is a serial protocall - sure it switches really fast so it seems like everybody has a perment connection.
So unless you have 6 network cards or do somtihng really odd - Any computer can only server one other computer at a time.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Umm, yeah, but, uhhh... well you see, uhhh...
Linux good, Microsoft sux!?
You're right, listening to slashdot praise Redhat for charging money in a subscription based scam is like listening to President Bush praising how wonderful he is because he just increased the size of the federal government by more than any other Administration since Lyndon B. Johnson.
It's one of those things that makes you wonder if we're in that parallel universe where Spock has a beard.
This is going to be fun.
No, they just charge you $400 for your copy of Windows first.
And Red Hat charges $349 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, per their website. This price includes a FULL year of updates for free. Uhm, wow.
We usually buy Windows _____ Server with a server, and so we pick it up for about $400 - $500.
A little more than the $349 Red Hat charges, but when you consider you get "free" updates for however long Microsoft supports the product (they still issue NT4 patches), and the polished quality of their products, it turns out to be a far better deal.
Red Hat is not polished, sorry.
Show me something as damaging as the RPC holes on RH.
Any remote root exploit, of which there have been several.
It has to be installed by default, you cannot just turn off the service blindly without breaking things, it has to lead to root access on the machine, and it also has to somehow bypass iptables in order to get into the machine in the first place.
Uhm, ever heard of firewalls? Ever heard of IPSec policies under Windows 2000? you probably haven't, but most competent 2000 administrators have, and they use them.
School yourself in them, and then get back to me, chump.
They don't give you jack shit. Provide me with a legitimate URL to download RHEL ES.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES product is $349. A year of support is $799, from what I remember, so you're full of shit.
And don't give me that "Just use Fedora" shit, either. That may cut it for small workgroups, but it doesn't cut it in the real world.