On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > Thanks for the info, and to all of those who replied to this thread. Mathieu's post > quoted below sure makes me think. How much does RedHat support cost now? I had a > meeting with a couple people from our IBM business partner, who said he thought that > RedHat support cost about $30,000 per year. I hadn't ever really heard a price for > Redhat support before. Is that in the ball park? My boss was in the same meeting > and mentioned his favorite Linux line, "for a free operating system, by the time you > add and IFL, VM, support, etc., you've spent a lot of money". > > I may have to rethink the distro that we should use. I currently have the RedHat > 7.2 s/390 distro as an evaluation copy. By the way, someone posted the GNU free > software philosophy link. I read that yesterday and sent the link to my boss. I'll > have to ask him if he read it yet. > > By the way, I am not against paying for support, and I feel that RH, Susa, etc. > should get compensated for their efforts, and if they don't, they go out of > business. I just realize that our budget will not take big increases. Over the > last couple of years, several people have been cut for economic reasons. If Linux > is to succeed here at P&H, any costs for software, hardware, and support will have > to be offset by savings in getting rid of servers. The servers we have are mostly > paid for, and not a heavy expense, however many are reaching the end of their useful > life and will have to be replaced. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. MVS Systems Programmer > P&H Mining Equipment > Milwaukee, WI > 414-671-7849 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How far does $30,000 go in paying the cost of hiring you for a year? -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
