[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Jonathan Glass]

Jeff Layton wrote:

> Chris Ricker wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>>
>> > I haven't checked, but I suspect that the RHN is only provided for 
>> one system,
>> > not all of them.  In fact, I believe that they claim you can only 
>> install on
>> > one system, so the $179/sys if the proper estimate above.  It is 
>> cheaper that
>> > $199, but not by much.
>> >
>> > OTOH, is is $179/sys/year.  That's right, it is a yearly fee.  With 
>> XP you are
>> > only expected to pay to upgrade every 2-5 years.  That makes XP 
>> cheaper.
>>
>> It is one system, and it is per year. If you need lots of systems, 
>> the price
>> goes down substantially per system...
>>
>
> Are you sure? (I'm not questioning you, I've just never heard
> this). I'm looking at solutions to replace RH 7.3 on our clusters
> (in total we have something like 1200 CPUs or about 600 boxes).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
Switch to Rocks clusters.  Really nice setup and compute node deployment.
http://rocks.npaci.edu/Rocks/

Jonathan Glass