[rhelv6-list] Redhat 6 New Pricing Scheme = crap

[Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]]

Can you post a link, please? I am looking at the RedHat store
(https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html) and I don't see quite
the same thing... the prices do seem a bit higher but I don't see
anything about separate costs for Cluster, GFS, etc. 

I do remember reading that they were changing the number of allowd
virtual guests, which I was not happy about.

Kevin

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[mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Don Hoover
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 8:38 AM
To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com
Subject: [rhelv6-list] Redhat 6 New Pricing Scheme = crap

Has everyone seen the totally new pricing scheme for RHEL6?

Gone are the days of simply having two versions of RHEL server.

Now Redhat has decided they want to create a complicated pricing scheme
where everything is a different tier and everything is an addon.


Examples:

    * Pricing is now per-socket-pair, where on the RHEL5-based model,
Advanced Platform was for any server with more sockets.

    * Advanced Platform (at $1500, or $2500 with premium support)
previously came with Cluster and GFS, now Cluster is addtional and GFS
is also additional.

    * Standard previously allowed 4 guests (plus hypervisor), whereas it
now only allows one guest at the same pricing, support for 4 guests
costs about 80% more.

    * Advanced Platform (at $1500, or $2500 with premium support)
previously allowed unlimited guests, now it costs $3249 per socket-pair
with 


This is TOTALLY CRAZY...for example:

A virtualisation cluster, using 8-socket dual-core servers.

On RHEL 5-era pricing, this was costing $1500 per server per year. 

With the new pricing, it would cost ($1999(unlimited
guests)+$399(cluster)+$799(GFS))*4 processor pairs 
= $12788 per server per year, **********an 850% increase**********



What is Redhat marketing smoking?

Not to mention that frankly, I don't want to have to implement all the
changes to my inventory system to keep track of all this crap to make
sure I am paying for everything we are using.  Do you ever think of
that?


Sorry...but even here at a fortune 50, $12k vs CENTOS will be an easy
sell.


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