Oracle responds to Red Hat

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Me neither. And I always wondered why you wouldn’t just go directly to the source and go with RedHat for enterprise usecases. Perhaps cheaper support contracts?

    • smo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      We struggled with red hat because our product is usually in airgapped installations. We know how many we’ve sold, but we don’t know how many are still in use.

      Say a customer buys one unit. Then 5 years later, they replace it. And 5 years on, they replace it again. On the books that’s 3 sold. We don’t know that two were retired, we don’t know these are all the same installation. So red hat wants us to pay 3 annual licences for this, and those licences don’t end until we can prove the installation was retired. The costs effectively snowball indefinitely.

      We wanted to pay - it was the easiest route to certain federal qualifications. But we couldn’t come to an agreement on how to pay.

          • SALT@lemmy.my.id
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            1 year ago

            Rocky still walkaround using UBI source, and it’s open, so in the end it’s 99.99% compatible with RHEL.

            Just fuck CIQ with their contract…