RHEL in commercial products
nerfwarriors
I am looking for how others have gone about using RHEL in their
commercial products with regards to licensing. I do not want to
modify RHEL, I am interested in using it as the OS that supports the
software I develop for the product I sell. The product consists of
hardware, an OS, and my software.
Also does anyone know if Red Hat officially supports a specific user
group? I have looked for this (albeit briefly) and mostly get results
on modifying user and group accounts in the OS.
Thank you.
Kevin Collins
Just curious - have you considered using CentOS? RHEL requires the user to have
a supported license...
Kevin
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>> group? I have looked for this (albeit briefly) and mostly get results
>> on modifying user and group accounts in the OS.
>
> Just curious - have you considered using CentOS? RHEL requires the user to
> have
> a supported license...
Hello,
It depends on the client. For some bigger and serious clients it is demand
that products they use to have support available. Then you can put
competitive offer to run application on Intel/RHEL instead of eg i5/AIX.
I think the existece of both free CentOS and commercialy supported RHEL is
the great advantage to have broad choice of solutions for production, test
and developer environments.
We have some production app running for gov sector on RHEL. In Poland there
are some companies offering support for RHEL, but we did not need to call
them so far :-)
regards Olek
General Schvantzkoph
Are you planning on selling a turnkey system or just software? If you are
just doing software all you would do is certify your software on RHEL and
your customers would be responsible for getting a RHEL license
themselves, assuming they want the support, or for installing CentOS5
themselves. If you are selling a turnkey box and you want to offer it
with RHEL support you should talk to Redhat directly.
BTW if I were you I'd make sure that your program ran on Fedora as well,
although your warranty would be limited to RHEL and clones. Fedora
compatibility ensures that you haven't taken any shortcuts that are going
to come around an bite you in the ass later. If it runs on Fedora as well
as RHEL5 you'll be assured that you'll be able to support RHEL6 the day
Redhat releases it.
nerfwarriors
wrote:
I plan on selling turnkey systems and am in the process of talking
with Redhat. What other's experience was dealing with Redhat for
similar situations. I'm going to have to have a support license which
is not a big hurdle just don't want to be paying more than I have too.
Thanks for the suggestions on Fedora and CentOS, I'll keep those in
mind. As for support Redhat is the primary resource that most people
use if running RHEL versus a user group community?
General Schvantzkoph
> Thanks for the suggestions on Fedora and CentOS, I'll keep those in
> mind. As for support Redhat is the primary resource that most people
> use if running RHEL versus a user group community?
You need to talk to your potential customers to get an answer to that
question. My experience is mostly with startups and they tend to use a
mixture of free and supported systems. My guess that most Linux shops
would do the same, using RHEL or SUSE on mission critical systems and
CentOS on less critical systems. There are lots of factors involved, how
Linux savvy are their IT people, assuming they have IT people, how
critical is your system, how expensive is your system, is it a Linux shop
or a Windows shop, what are the management prejudices, what are the legal
liabilities.