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Posted on 09/19/2006 9:18:40 PM PDT by KoRn
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We're just starting to roll out some RH stuff here (we're mostly an AIX/Solaris shop) because we're planning on using vmware more in our prod environment. I expect to soon become familiar with RH support policies :-)
Red Hat is definitely not cheaper than Windows if you buy their security patches. You should know you have to pay a yearly fee to Red Hat, whereas with Windows you don't have to pay for packaged security updates. I still have dozens of Windows 2000 servers that haven't cost me a dime since 2000, but if they were Red Hat they would still be costing me, every single year.
Cool--I'll have to take a look at it.
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Why do you insist on calling an apple an orange, please look at my initial statement..
"its still cheaper than windows (and exchange, sql server, iis, ...) with the same level of support"
If I want to buy a Windows server OS have managed patch support, have someone I can call at Microsoft and get a callback within four hours and have them work the problem for as long as it takes how much must I pay. Lets put on this IIS, SQL Server, Exchange, and Development software how much am I paying now?
With Redhat its $799 a year for this.
with Windows you don't have to pay for packaged security updates.
And with RedHat in a development and test environment the yearly fee for "packaged security updates" and the OS itself is 60$ how much does the windows server cost with IIS, exchange, SQL server, ....
Run the scenario three servers dev, test, and prod. The two lower environments must have packaged updates and the prod must have updates + phone support well do this for four years years. The server is a web server.
Windows: 999 * 3 (for each environment) * 4 (years) = $11,988 RHEL: 799 * 4 (Prod for four years) + 60$ * 2 (dev/test) * 4 (years) = $3676
Who that?
LOL! ***Copyleftist*** hackers! :-P
There is no equivalents to MS SQL and Exchange included with Red Hat, sure maybe some freeware clones but nothing with the same sophistication and ease of use. That's why you need those support calls in the first place, I've got over a hundred Windows servers here and we haven't had a support contract with Microsoft in almost 10 years (we did need one when NT 3.1 came out, which is about where Linux is now). For my operation, I'd suddenly have to start paying Red Hat for security patches AND phone support, something I don't need at all now.
I'd suddenly have to start paying Red Hat for security patches AND phone support, something I don't need at all now.
Congratulations, you live in a different corporate environment than I do why any CEO who has to answer to SOX, and other federal standards would ever not have support as a just in case (i.e. just in case your exchange admins are driving somewhere and they die in a fiery crash) is beyond me, especially when I get the support the patches all for about a third of the price I get windows for..
I can still call Microsoft 24/7 if I need to, for a fee, but since I don't ever need to, there's no need to pay them up front just for the priveledge. Been there, done that, but no longer needed.
As I said, I'm happy for you that you live in a different corporate culture than I do. When we set up enterprise database servers we want support even though in the four or five years I have been here I can count the cases I have sent off to RH on one hand, not too bad for one UNIX admin supporting 40 servers.
Then Windows would definitely be cheaper, since you would get your security patches for free, and only have paid about $1,000 for all the support calls you made combined. Instead, you've been paying thousandS of dollars every single year to Red Hat.
He's the dude who claimed CentOS hacked his city's website and threatened to call the FBI over it.
Of course, he also wrote the Register and asked them to shut off the Internet...
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