On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 08:31:05AM -0800, Kent C. Brodie wrote: > This is exactly what we're starting to do. When I first started at > current $job 6 years ago, we had a handful of RHEL boxes. Everything > got migrated to RHEL over time (off of solaris...). Mostly for > compatability with the toolsets we use, but also for cost. The > savings was significant. > > Over time, we have grown ... a lot.... and now even the cost of annual > RH licenses is a burden. Of course, I soon realized that the > "maintenance" was, as mentioned, really only RHN updates. > > We are now actively migrating to CentOS for anything that's not an > oracle server. Back in the days of version (Rhel, CentOS) 3, I wasn't > sure how good that would work... but since version 5+, the number of > CentOS repositories is huge, and the community there has grown a LOT. > > I, like almost everyone here, have NEVER called redhat for support. > The one time I actually logged into bugzilla to report a bug with a > 10-gig-nic driver, I was one of many people having the same problem and > it took over a year for anyone to do anything. By then, I had simply > replaced my nic with a different flavor :-) > > -kcb
Wonder how seriously Red Hat has considered a lower-cost options for folks in your position. Is there a price point where you'd pay for immediate access to entitlements (with CentOS there is a small delay for general errata and a longer delay for point releases)? I'm guessing this would be a no-support option or email-only with a matching SLA.... Perhaps the advantages over CentOS in that case would still not be compelling enough even at a $99/yr subscription cost... Red Hat does have a JBOSS Developer type option which is errata only (no support). But it states you can't be using the deployed system in a production role. I suppose Red Hat has thought through all of these scenarios and decided it's not worth it and they just don't mind people using CentOS. All in the same ecosystem, right? Ray _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
