Disclaimer again: I am a Canonical employee, although I do not claim to represent my employer in this discussion.
Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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 $5,000/node. There is no 150$/node Ubuntu subscription. I presume you are confused about Landscape and its relationship to Ubuntu. Landscape a Web management platform for Ubuntu that is sold on a SaaS model. You can think of Landscape as a hosted version of Spacewalker (which is, from what I gather, inspired by Landscape). We have no off-the-shelf 5000$/node service at this time. > 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.** There is no equivalent to RHN and Satellite Server in the Ubuntu world, proprietary or otherwise. Again, I think you construe Landscape as being an RHN equivalent, which it is not. Landscape offer free trial[1], if you care to see for yourself. > Canonical was smart from > the get-go by using a trademark other than its corporate > namesake (and Novell doesn't as well with SUSE). For the sake of being completely honest, Ubuntu *is* a trademark of Canonical. However, Canonical permit use of its Ubuntu under a fairly liberal policy[2]. > Canonical, in > the same regard, cannot offer IHV/ISV and other guarantees > on their free product either. Well, yes, we do. Bryan, you have been making a certain number of matter-of-factish claims in this discussion about both Canonical and its business partners. As an employee of Canonical, it is not appropriate for me to correct you on the matter and discuss my employer's confidential businesses publically, but you should seriously consider checking your sources. Some of the stuff you claim regarding Canonical business is just plain wrong. [1]: http://www.canonical.com/projects/landscape [2]: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy -- Etienne Goyer 0x3106BCC2 "For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm." http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/164
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