On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Darren Burnett wrote:
> our servers from AS to ES. We are buying the 15 lics which are
> valid for 1 year.
They're not "licences", read the agreement very carefully. They're a
support&subscription agreement.
You can quite easily run RH EL/AS/whatever without paying. Just RH
wont support you.
Now, presuming the only thing Oracle care about is that you run
RH/whatever, ie that they care about the platform, not whether you're
paid up to RedHat, that might be good enough for you.
regards,
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