[wplug] White Box Linux

[Carl Benedict]

Here is something interesting I found.  A friend told me about Progeny,
which seems to be a Linux support company.  This URL says they will
support RH8 on Jan 1st, 2004 and RH9 on May 1st, 2004 for $5 / month per
machine ?!

http://www.progeny.com/products/transition/

Has anyone ever heard of these guys or better yet, used their service?

- Carl

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:55, Vanco, Don wrote:
> This will adress the change in costs:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/
> <https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/> 
>  
> Currently, update serivces are in place for as little as $20/machine... but
> after the death of RHL9 in April of '04 the prices will change - to the
> levels you mention.  I personally think pricing this steep is suicide.....
> but who can tell what people are willing to pay.  I _can_ tell you that we
> get a lot more queries about SuSE these days compared to a year ago..
>  
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of James O'Kane 
> Sent: Tue 12/9/2003 6:31 PM 
> To: wplug at wplug.org 
> Cc: 
> Subject: RE: [wplug] White Box Linux
> 
> 
> 
> On 9 Dec 2003, Carl B. wrote:
> > Let me rephrase that.  It is disheartening to see many folks walk away
> > from RH Linux because of RH's moves.  I guess in a way this is a
> > testament to RH, as it seems they we able to capture many users /
> > businesses that depended on their product.  It is inevitable that those
> > users who want to walk away from RH Linux will either pony up the $ for
> > RHEL or move to something else.  I have tried Fedora, BTW, and I do like
> > it.  I am anxious to see the release of Fedora Core 2.
> 
> I'm not sure where I personally stand on this, but to summarize a thread I
> read on another list. The price has gone from $60 per machine per year to
> $179 or more without a matching increase in service. I don't remember what
> he was comparing, but I remember reading six-fold increase, so he must be
> using different numbers.
> 
> -james
> 
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