Re: just got screwed by red hat...

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 The Ubuntu LTS release is also an option if you don't require something 
RPM based and your applications are supported on it. 

Free support for Ubuntu is pretty good, and enterprise support is 
available from Canonical.  Their pricing structure isn't very obvious.  It 
says $750 for servers, which I'd assume it a yearly cost.  I'm hoping they 
don't mean per server, but it wasn't really obvious to me. 

http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Gavin David wrote: 

> Steve, 
> 
> Take a look at CentOS (http://www.centos.org) - it tracks the Red Hat 
> Enterprise distributions and has a very good support community. I use it on 
> several production servers alongside a couple of RHEL licensed servers and I 
> prefer the CentOS environment. I've gotten quicker responses from the CentOS 
> guys than for similar problems reported to Red Hat, plus you don't have to 
> go through multiple layers to get to someone who actually knows anything. 
> 
> Good Luck with whatever distro you choose, 
> Dave 
> 
> all religions and ideologies suffer from the truth 
> "Feed The People" -  Stephen Stills 
> 
> 
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Stephen Adler 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. 
>> 
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