Originally Posted by breley
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How much of the price includes the OS & support agreement?
And not to hijack the thread, but a couple years ago I found an "business" ebay seller that sold me 2 x Redhat Advance Server 2.1 software boxes and licenses w/3 year support and upgrades for $120 total. They had found the two sets of disks with some servers they got from a business they bought (but they went to windows). I was able to register, download RH 3 AS & 4 AS and get enterprise on-site support. There was a part of me that toyed with the idea of calling up support and having them come out and "work" on my HP LH4 Netserver in my basement, lol. After I logged into the Redhat portal, I discovered the additional software packages and such the licenses entitled me to would have run around $5000 had a purchased in standard retail. Needless to say I was flabbergasted.
I also got a similar deal for SuSE Enterprise Server 8...the whole sealed boxed deal, 3 years on-site support for about $85, from another business selling off assets.
Too bad my 3 years are up. :) I really liked how Redhat allowed users to log in and check on the various system status items.
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This is a very good point. The OS is about $500 and the support is around $1000. Could I get the OS somewhere else cheaper? I don't know anything about SUSE but other Linux distros I've dealt with (very sparingly) have been a pain to install and get working. I don't like dealing with ebay because it's a crap shoot if you are getting a genuine usable product. I'm not sure why he thinks we need the top of the line level of support. Honestly, if the database was down for a few days it wouldn't be that big a deal. There is no revenue involved here.