Re: just got screwed by red hat...

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 10/1/07, Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 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.