Enterprises using the Self-support plan have noticed a significant increase in subscription costs when using Red Hat Enterprise. Linux Server on virtual machines. Red Hat has retired the old self-support subscription option RH0197181 in favor of the new RH00005. According to Red Hat representatives, sales of new subscriptions under the RH0197181 plan were discontinued back in 2015, but old subscriptions remained active.
The old and new plans both waive technical support and are sold at the same price: $349 per year. The difference is that the new plan only allows RHEL to be used on physical servers, while the old plan allowed the distribution to be installed on virtual machinesFurthermore, the new plan now includes a note stating that it is not intended for production environments. Therefore, users running RHEL in virtual machines are now forced to use the standard plan with technical support, which costs $799 per year.
In addition, Red Hat representatives explained that the expanded version, after the classic version was phased out, CentOS The Red Hat Developer program, which allows free use of RHEL in environments with up to 16 virtual or physical systems, is only available to individual developers, not enterprises. This means that company employees can use distributions with a Red Hat Developer subscription only for personal use, but commercial use of RHEL within an enterprise requires a license.
Source: opennet.ru
