Dell Calls For Red Hat To Lower Prices

VaultX points to an article on CNET (linked below), writing "According to Dell, Red Hat needs to lower pricing. 'We believe Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, for the small and medium-sized business market, was out of the price range of these customers.' With Dell's strong presence in the Linux server market, Red Hat may want to listen."

Comments

Re:RHEL 3?

[Anonymous Coward]

It means they are idiots

Re:They could be lower but not by much

[Pharmboy]

RedHat has a TERRIBLE history of changing their contracts. After purchasing many support contracts for RH9, and paying $60 each for them (workstation grade) they announced they would no longer support 9 after ONE year, and all my contracts were worthless. This was just after they released 9, 6 months after releasing version 8 (which was a big enough pain in the ass as it is!). Of course, I could RUN up2date and it would just TELL me that everything was updated already, even though it was dangerously OUT of date.

I still have two boxes using RH products (Fedora, unfortunately), the rest are being phased out. Already installing SuSE on my personal boxes, and looking at BSD for some servers (DNS for example).

Sad since I have used RH since the 5.1 days, and toyed with it since the 4.x days. I still have a boxed copy of every major release, but feel majorly screwed by them, enough that I can't ever see me changing back. They can't seem to figure out how they want to support Linux, and while they are finally making a profit in the short term, IBM/Novell/SuSE have a much better chance of getting my dollars, and the dollars of the other people RH has jacked around.