Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2003 02:40 AM
Uhm, when did Red Hat start charging per-seat? As far as I can tell, they license their OS's per machine/CPU for servers, but there is no per-seat connection fees. There's also a fee for RHEL WS if you want to put it on every machine you have to shell out more money per machine you want to run it on, or you could just use RH's Fedora instead.
Microsoft 'per seat' licensing is very different. For MS OS's, you pay once for the OS when you buy the machine, then you pay again for the OS for the 'Software Assurance' upgrade insurance, and you pay for each and every service you want to connect to your servers to use (file shares, MS Exchange, SQL Server, etc).
(If anyone is listening, creating a really great, integrated set of development tools ***not the CLI*** would be a great thing for UL).
Have you tried KDevelop (Gideon)? KDevelop 2.x was okay, but not spectacular. They've added a lot of extra features and capabilities in 3.0, although it's still in beta. It's got support for Gnome/GTK projects and such, but I've never tried to use it for that.
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Re:Still asking "Why?"
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2003 02:40 AMMicrosoft 'per seat' licensing is very different. For MS OS's, you pay once for the OS when you buy the machine, then you pay again for the OS for the 'Software Assurance' upgrade insurance, and you pay for each and every service you want to connect to your servers to use (file shares, MS Exchange, SQL Server, etc).
(If anyone is listening, creating a really great, integrated set of development tools ***not the CLI*** would be a great thing for UL).
Have you tried KDevelop (Gideon)? KDevelop 2.x was okay, but not spectacular. They've added a lot of extra features and capabilities in 3.0, although it's still in beta. It's got support for Gnome/GTK projects and such, but I've never tried to use it for that.
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