[Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!

[Michael Saunders]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Paul Broomfield wrote:

> The other thing that annoys me at the moment is this 12month support
> thing.

It's not ideal, but as a community product which doesn't generate any
direct revenue, it's still good of them to give each release a year
(which is a lot of work with each release getting larger). Red Hat
aren't daft; they did a lot of research and found that the vast
majority of users were running software less than a year old anyway.

> Redhat advanced server is overkill to the highest degree for my
> needs, and the price tag is astonishing.

That's true, it is overkill in many cases, but Red Hat are preparing a
smaller and cheaper version of their server distro.

> Hey ho. Well for my needs I am switching to BSD!

You make some valid points, but I'm not so sure about that! Which of
the BSDs offer ANY kinda support schemes -- at least anything better
than Red Hat? Sure, you can probably find a few guys here and there
offering support, or pay Wasabi if you're on NetBSD, but switching to
a BSD won't eliminate this problem.

Mike

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