Linux AS pricing?

sikandar · 09-23-2003, 06:58 AM

https://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/as/
https://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/

I want to know that the prices provided on the above links are one time or on yearly basis. What are the modes of license as someone told me that you have to pay on yearly basis. We just want to purchase software without support so is it possible if so then how and what the other options?

tangle · 09-23-2003, 07:48 AM

Have you asked Red Hat what there pricing is?

trickykid · 09-23-2003, 08:05 AM

Moved: Seems more suitable in the Redehat forum. Regards.

misc · 09-23-2003, 08:43 AM

The tables reads

Annual Subscription Pricing and Availability

which means the prices are per one year.

You could choose the cheapest package of ES instead of AS, which comes without web/phone based support, but includes errata support and updates.

usernamenumber · 09-23-2003, 10:29 AM

I second that suggestion. If you're concerned about price, AS is overkill for most server systems. If you're not creating a high-end, 0-downtime database system then ES should be fine for you.

sikandar · 09-23-2003, 10:33 AM

My question is if we don't neet any support just software then how much it will cost us for 2 servers?

misc · 09-23-2003, 10:41 AM

You can get only complete packages as listed on that page, regardless of whether you'll use the support contract. What do you not understand?

sikandar · 09-23-2003, 10:49 AM

Some one told us that we have to pay 1500$ each year which is not mentioned here.

usernamenumber · 09-23-2003, 11:01 AM

A lot of people are doing that and it's very annoying. Because you *can* spend several thousand dollars on a Red Hat system (AS with a full support package) people are assuming that you *must* spend that much. Even major media like Linux Journal and eWeek have spread this conception.

As you can see by the pricing info Red Hat provides (which these people never bothered to check), this is not the case, though. RHEL ES can be bought with minimal support for as little as $150.

I'm sorry if you were mislead, but the good news is that you don't have to spend nearly as much as seem to have assumed on an RHEL server.

misc · 09-23-2003, 11:10 AM

@ sikandar : see my earlier posting above, the one with fat red letters

@ usernamenumber

Quote:

RHEL ES can be bought with minimal support for as little as $150.

No. Cheapest RHEL ES is "Basic" edition for $349 for one year. Even RHEL WS is $179/y.

sikandar · 09-23-2003, 11:20 AM

We have to purchase AS as our server will be 24/7 and high transactions.