Hey, On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:58 am, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> wrote:
You're paying for the support contract there, surely, not just the license to run it?
That would be the case if there was an option to run the software without paying for support. But payment isn't optional. Also there are significant differences in the support prices for the number of virtual machines. Going from 1VM to 4VMs may give a slight support price increase, but going from 4 to more probably won't be noticable.
That's an artefact of Red Hat and SUSE support licensing, though. Are you able to purchase the Dell box without an operating system at all? If so, you could then run a non-supported Linux of your choice (obviously) or pick something like Oracle Linux which provides both the binary installation media and all errata for free. You then have the option to pay for support later, if required. Cheers, Avi