On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Shannon B. Roddy wrote: > This is all well and good, but I think I am going to start running Sun's > Java Desktop (FKA "mad hatter") which is based on SuSE. Sun has > excellent support, etc. Also, I can get it for $50 a pop whereas RedHat > wants >$500 for their enterprise desktop offerings.
Huh? RHEL WS (the enterprise desktop/workstation) is $179, $299 with phone support. Although that is per year, and it is totally NOT cool to have to pay for security updates. That's something the big boys learned long ago (Sun, IBM), and i don't think MS has ever done it. I don't know what Redhat is thinking. There is some talk about Redhat having educational discounts, making WS free for students, as ES as low as $50. If so, it'd be an attractive option for us. ray
