[Gllug] Linux support options

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Feb 27 15:37:26 UTC 2006


On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:30:07PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> I'm looking at the options for supporting a major corporate Linux 
> deployment, and I'm wondering if there's a way to dodge Red Hat's 
> painfully high support contract costs (or their per-server pricing model).

Run Centos

> Is anyone aware of other organisations that will offer support for Red 
> Hat systems, other than Red Hat itself. Red Hat is a pre-requisite to 
> keep other vendors (like Oracle) from getting their knickers in a twist. 
> BTW, no, I haven't figured out how patches, etc. would be effected 
> reliably by a third party.
> 
> I understand that this isn't really very nice to Red Hat; but I also 
> don't see where they get off trying to charge such extortionately high 
> rates.
> 
> Richard
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