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Paid CentOS support is called RHEL - the whole point of CentOS is repackage GPL RHEL stuff without the licensing fee. The only way I see this being viable is th
by reader_mode 6y ago
Paid CentOS support is called RHEL - the whole point of CentOS is repackage GPL RHEL stuff without the licensing fee. The only way I see this being viable is them getting bankrolled by a huge cloud provider - but cloud providers already decided that having their own distros was a better option.
- cpncrunch 6y agoIndeed, but most of us don't need support. We just need security updates, ideally for 10 years.
- reader_mode 6y agoAFAIK there's a licensing tier for RHEL that gets you that - don't know how it compares to Ubuntu.
- mroche 6y agoFor RHEL Server (MSRP) Self-Support: $350/yr Standard: $800/yr Premium: $1300/yr Those are all starting points without including potential addons.
- Nullabillity 6y agoApparently the self-support edition isn't allowed to be ran on VMs. WTF?
- toyg 6y ago> GPL RHEL stuff without the licensing fee Without the absurdly high licensing fee. A more reasonable amount (be it a saas-like low monthly charge or one-off 3-digit fee) would probably go down fine with enough institutional users to generate a decent amount of money.
- corty 6y agoWell, absurdely high isn't really true, it is quite similar to e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing There is a some up/down depending on various rebates, volume licenses, support included/excluded, etc ("nobody pays sticker price"). But in general, RedHat is in the same order of magnitude as Windows but a little cheaper due to no per-core-pricing, no necessary CAL shenannigans or weird limitations on number of users/size of company/VM/PM and stuff. But of course it's true that in domains like HPC or cloud computing, the huge number of licenses and machines involved make a few hundred bucks per year just too expensive in sum.