Businesses 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 discontinued the old subscription option RH0197181 with self-support in favor of the new RH00005. According to Red Hat representatives, the sale of new subscriptions under the RH0197181 plan was halted back in 2015, but existing subscriptions continued to remain valid.
Both old and new plans imply a waiver of technical support services and are sold at the same price — $349 per year. The difference is that the new plan allows the use of RHEL only on physical servers, while the old one permitted installation on virtual machines. Additionally, the new plan includes a note stating that it is not intended for production environments. Consequently, users running RHEL on virtual machines are now compelled to use the standard plan with technical support, which costs $799 per year.
Additionally, representatives from Red Hat clarified that the expanded 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 to enterprises. This means employees of a company can use the distributions from the Red Hat Developer subscription only for personal purposes, while commercial use of RHEL in a business requires the purchase of a license.
Source: opennet.ru
