He isn’t stupid, but he’s either uninformed, or he’s lying because he’s dead wrong about their licensing model. You don’t pay per core. You pay per physical mac

He isn’t stupid, but he’s either uninformed, or he’s lying because he’s dead wrong about their licensing model. You don’t pay per core. You pay per physical machine (of any size), or per 2 VMs (of any size). If you’re heavily virtualizing, you buy a VDC license at an MSRP of $4k USD, and you run all the VMs you want on a single hypervisor. If you’ve got more than a couple hundred machines, the VDC licensing is probably your best option. Alternatively, use RH’s virtualization solution, and pay only for the OpenShift licenses. He doesn’t want to pay for the OS at all, he just wants to pay for support. That’s fine, but he’s still factually incorrect in what he’s said.