just got screwed by red hat...

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 Well... Times are a changing... Red Hat provided a very nice service by 
which you could get up to 5 servers registered on the red hat network 
for automatic updates of their enterprise based distribution. It cost 
about $300/year which I thought was quite reasonable. I just got off the 
phone with Red Hat who tell me that they have stopped the service and I 
would have to pay something like $350/machine/year to keep them 
subscribed to the red hat network. :( 

The business that I'm in requires a bit of attention being payed to the 
state of my severs and I have always been a bit hesitant to use Fedora, 
or Debian or some other "community" supported distribution. I wanted to 
buy into an enterprise level linux distribution which I could count on 
being well supported. I understand that most distributions are well 
supported and this may be just a prejudice on my side. Be that as it 
may, I want to look around for another alternative. Basically commercial 
support for linux. Does anyone have any experience with Novell and Suse? 
This is the only other alternative that I can think of. Is there another 
distribution which provide commercial support? This would me switching 
my 4 servers over to Suse which is no mean feat, and I do like Fedora a 
lot, and wish I could keep my system's red hat based, but ... Times are 
a changing... 

Cheers. Steve. 


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