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Guess what?

I found this helpful and I'm glad it was posted regardless of whether people think it's FUD or not. And I'm going to consider running the script and switching.

Because of this statement:

"Contrast that with the CentOS/RHEL story. If you find yourself needing to buy support, have fun reinstalling your system with RHEL before anyone will talk to you."

Thoughts anyone?

I'm seeing the support cost for a single machine is $499 for a year.

http://www.oracle.com/us/media/calculator/linuxtco/index.htm...

(Surprising there is no link on the spiel to support..)




For comparison, here is Red Hat's pricing: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-...




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