On Fri, 8/15/08, Bryan J. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Actually, it's $150/node (unsupported). Other options exist, at increased cost, for supported versions. Then there are SLA options. I have a couple of clients that pay Canonical around $5,000/node. My client I'm at this week pays for the unsupported version. Then entire, original context of my post -- in response to someone else -- was on the Red Hat Network (RHN) subscription and system management. Someone called it "proprietary." It was partially proprietary until June of this year. It is related to the RHN subscription/management system. Canonical has launched similarly and many organizations pay for it as well. I haven't seen it released as open source either, although a few Ubuntu developments are not open source.** The primary difference between Red Hat and Canonical is that Red Hat does not allow it's namesake trademark to be freely redistributed, and that's unlikely to change as a publicly traded company. Canonical was smart from the get-go by using a trademark other than its corporate namesake (and Novell doesn't as well with SUSE). Although the release of SRPMS allows things like CentOS. Although you can't get "free" IHV/ISV certification on any distro. E.g., even though Oracle uses CentOS directly, even they call it Unbreakable Linux with its own IHV/ISV program. I saw Red Hat get beat up on this for years in the '90s, and open themselves to huge legal issues. Canonical, in the same regard, cannot offer IHV/ISV and other guarantees on their free product either. Although it is nice to see Ubuntu offering the same base of releases, up to three (3) years for free on Ubuntu LTS. I just hope Ubuntu can work out is certification agreements with Dell and others and see its LTS Server products distributed. Otherwise, Shuttleworth's money only goes so far. And they are losing money on the Dell deal as of right now, which is not sustainable. -- Bryan **NOTE: One thing that is open source that came out of Ubuntu is upstart, which Fedora 9 adopted (after years of writing and bickering over a few init replacements of their own). It's good to see distros adopting each others implementations. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
