[Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

[Richard Pieri]

On 7/25/2012 11:21 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
> Which is amusing because Red Hat's inflated prices are held aloft by
> comparative expectation. Basically everyone in that market from
> Microsoft, IBM and even Oracle are charging amazing sums of money that
> don't really relate to the floor of the product they sell.

Red Hat doesn't sell Linux.  Red Hat sells responsibility.

Support contracts are a layer in a disaster prevention and recovery 
scheme.  They're a resource to call upon when there is a problem in 
order to resolve that problem as quickly as possible.  I've never 
encountered a problem that I could not eventually solve, but 
"eventually" isn't good enough when users can't do their work or their 
research.  Having a support contract means having access to specialists 
who can fix the problem faster than I can myself.

That's worth a great deal more than a chunk of polycarbonate and aluminum.

-- 
Rich P.