On Fri, 8/15/08, Etienne Goyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no subscription model with Ubuntu:
Yes there is. Canonical offers a subscription model on Ubuntu LTS -- from $120/node updates to $5,000/node SLAs. BTW, my point wasn't to compare RHEL versus Ubuntu LTS, it was to say that even in the case of subscriptions, neither RHEL nor Ubuntu LTS licenses the "run-time." > all updates are completely free to everybody, paying or not, > from the same source. Really? All five (5) years on Ubuntu LTS Server is free? I thought there were separate three (3) Ubuntu LTS and five (5) year subscription for Ubuntu LTS Server? > Canonical sell value-added services (technical support to > end-users, hardware certification and custom engineering to > manufacturers, etc), but there is essentially no per-seat > charge for using Ubuntu[1]. Nor is there for RHEL. A very, very common mis-perception. There is _no_ "run-time" license for RHEL. There is a subscription charge for updates, and Red Hat does not offer free binaries of RHEL like Canonical does for Ubuntu LTS. People over-state that difference. > You get the best of both commercial and community distros: > third-party certification and corporate commitment from the > backer, at zero cost. Again, I'm not here to compare, but please don't overstate things. Also, separate Ubuntu from Ubuntu LTS from Ubuntu LTS Server subscriptions. Also understand there is no IHV/ISV guarantee with the free (of charge) releases. It's unfair to expect such out of Canonical, and they are already getting demonized by many end-users for making that same assumption that they did with Red Hat prior as well. Lastly, Dell more recently shot down Ubuntu LTS Server as a standard option with certification. They are not the only ones. That was sad to see because it's the subscription model where the money is, and Canonical has to be sustainable beyond Shuttleworth's charity and endowment. > [1]: Except, possibly, for technical support, which is sold > off-the-shelf on a per-seat basis. But it is completely > optional. Actually, I'm looking at the $120/node update subscription option. Most home consumers doesn't know it exists, but corporate users very much do so. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
