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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by hjb100 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:50AM (#25371373)
As a sysadmin in academia, this is not so straightforward. Since number of servers/VMs are in ballpark of over one hundred, RedHat license costs will be over 30,000$/year. This is not insignificant amount of money and not easy to get the money suddenly.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by bierjunge on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:14AM (#25372850)
$30k is a significant amount, especially in academic environment, I don't deny it. But it's not much for > 100 servers. In my previous job, I had licenses which were about 15kâ‚Ĵ for one server (thanks Oracle...) and the Windows Server licenses were also pretty expensive. $300-500 per server/year is not much more than a Photoshop license for one designer. And if we talk big business (1000's of servers and even more), you will get very special pricing anyway.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by russfink on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:30AM (#25374711)
Not just price, but ability to function without constant access to the satellite portal. It's darn near impossible to upgrade a RHEL box from a work at home VPN environment.
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