On Friday 25 July 2003 1:47 pm, johnnyfulcrum wrote: > This question is currently floating around at my work: > > How will Linux lower the TCO? RedHat AS 2.1 is about ~2000 dollars/server > - not free. I don't think Hardware costs would be a huge area of savings > either since Sun/IBM pricing has improved considerably - and I believe the > OS comes bundled with the cost of the server itself with Sun/IBM. As to Oracle on Linux, SuSE Enterprise 8 is certified for Oracle 8i and 9i. I did a quick check of the pricing on SuSE 8 for x86 (probably Xeons) the only way you get to $2K/server is with the "premium" support package. They also have versions for Itanium and AMD64 (Optitron?) Pricing on the 64-Bits is by CPU for the support program. Basically you buy the support service and for the first server you get the software for an extra $129. Jack Your local SuSE bigot. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list