I'd love to use it (the Workstation version) - I hate the thought of upgrading perfectly working installs once a year.
But they've apparently never heard of such a thing called 'site licensing'. My institution (several hundreds of installs) will *not* pay for something that's "technically" free, when the cost for it is more than we pay for WindowsXP ($50 someodd dollars compared to $179 or so for Workstation).
Speaking to the salesman, I leveled it out - Look, I said, I don't want phone, email, any sort of support. All I want are your upgrade RPMS for the five years the product lasts. No dice.
So there's your TCO of Linux. If Debian didn't ask so many dang questions during a simple apt-get upgrade (like, sendmail) so I didn't have to be there to upgrade it, we would have switched.
I'll keep watching for site license options, but until then, they're not making as much money as they could.
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I'd love to use it (the Workstation version) - I hate the thought of upgrading perfectly working installs once a year.
But they've apparently never heard of such a thing called 'site licensing'. My institution (several hundreds of installs) will *not* pay for something that's "technically" free, when the cost for it is more than we pay for WindowsXP ($50 someodd dollars compared to $179 or so for Workstation).
Speaking to the salesman, I leveled it out - Look, I said, I don't want phone, email, any sort of support. All I want are your upgrade RPMS for the five years the product lasts. No dice.
So there's your TCO of Linux. If Debian didn't ask so many dang questions during a simple apt-get upgrade (like, sendmail) so I didn't have to be there to upgrade it, we would have switched.
I'll keep watching for site license options, but until then, they're not making as much money as they could.