UNC Linux Users Group

[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Matthew Mauzy wrote:

> 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 

IIRC, the 5K covers the buy-in to the academic pricing scheme, and allows 
unlimited personal-use licenses for all university-affiliated machines.  


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