UNC Linux Users Group

[Matthew Mauzy <matthew_mauzy AT unc.edu>]

You'd think it was Friday already ... hit sent before I'd finished the 
message...

Regarding the $2500 Base Package ...

It seems to me that the Site License Base of $2500 just get's you the Red 
Hat Network Proxy Server and then either $7/FTE or $25/WS and $50/AS.  If 
you aren't going the $7 / FTE route (for UNC somewhere near $40k) then it's 
$25/WS and $50/AS which is the same as the cost for educational users 
purchasing individual annual subscriptions.  Right?

<http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/education/indiv/>

For those of you talking to Red Hat, what am I missing here?  Why should we 
fork over the $5k to Red Hat?  Is it worth $5k to have Systems Grouping, 
Systems Permissions, Scheduled Actions, System Search, Package Profile 
Comparison, Custom Channels, and Local Package Caching?

<http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/management/table/>
<http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/architecture/>


There.  Done.  No more emails from me today.  ;-)

--Matthew
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Matthew W. Mauzy
Systems Administrator
OASIS Unix Desktop Support
UNC Chapel Hill
mauzy @ unc.edu
919.962.9819