Well, I was going to ask ...

[Rick Forrister]

A quote from Jeremy Hogan at Red Hat:
> It's $70 at the 50 unit level. It's not targeted at a single system
> consumer, which is why there's the 10 pack minimum. But we have a 30
> demo program coming that will let you preview it (i.e. download the ISOs
> and have 30 days access to errata).

There's also RHPW @ ~$60-$90.  The desktop product is meant as a network system component, I suspect.  No data on the 30 day demo download of a preview; when I have more data on what that will provide & entail, I'll post that here.

Rick Forrister



Collins wrote:

>On Wed, 05 May 2004 09:35:40 +1000
>James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
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>>Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>On 05/04/04 15:15, Michael Hipp wrote:
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>>>>... what you all thought of Red Hat's Desktop Linux announcement. But 
>>>>then I looked at the pricing plan. So I sez to myself "Never mind".
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>>>Yea, it looks like a hastily put together marketing blitz.
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>>Umm the pricing is almost the same as M$ product or did I misread ? 
>>$2500 for 10 seats?
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>Well, I've said for years that RedHat was the M$ of linux distros. I'm too spoiled running a non-profit distro.
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