What is SUSE doing with SLES licensing?

It seems that you cannot buy the Basic Subscription anymore, since 2015 May, apparently.

Basic Subscription is for maintenance updates only, access to the update repositories, no other support. It costs $350 for 1 year per server.

The only subscriptions available now are Standard and Priority, that include support. Standard costs $670 for 1 year per server.

Someone told me that Basic Subscription is available as OEM, if you buy the server from Dell, you should still be able to get it. But I don’t see that on Dell’s website. Only this. First sum is full price, second is with discount:
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,1yr Subscription&License,Physical [$1,199.00 $613.90]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,3yr Subscription&License,Physical [$3,299.00 $1,689.11]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,5yr Subscription&License,Physical [$5,599.00 $2,866.72]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,1yr Subscription&License,Unlimited Virtual Licenses [$2,799.00 $1,433.11]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,3yr Subscription&License,Unlimited Virtual Licenses [$7,699.00 $3,941.94]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,5yr Subscription&License,Unlimited Virtual Licenses [$12,799.00 $6,553.17]
Limited time off – Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart

These seem to be prices for Priority Subscription.

RedHat still has a Self-Support subscription for $349.

So what is SUSE doing?

I did not find a forum that would be more appropriate for this question.

On 20/04/16 13:24, silviumc wrote:
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It seems that you cannot buy the Basic Subscription anymore, since 2015
May, apparently.

Basic Subscription is for maintenance updates only, access to the update
repositories, no other support. It costs $350 for 1 year per server.

The only subscriptions available now are Standard and Priority, that
include support. Standard costs $670 for 1 year per server.

Someone told me that Basic Subscription is available as OEM, if you buy
the server from Dell, you should still be able to get it. But I don’t
see that on Dell’s website. Only this. First sum is full price, second
is with discount:
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,1yr Subscription&License,Physical
[$1,199.00 $613.90]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,3yr Subscription&License,Physical
[$3,299.00 $1,689.11]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,5yr Subscription&License,Physical
[$5,599.00 $2,866.72]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,1yr Subscription&License,Unlimited
Virtual Licenses [$2,799.00 $1,433.11]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,3yr Subscription&License,Unlimited
Virtual Licenses [$7,699.00 $3,941.94]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart
SuSe Enterprise Linux Server,1-2SKT,5yr Subscription&License,Unlimited
Virtual Licenses [$12,799.00 $6,553.17]
Limited time off � Discount shown in cart for both browse and cart

These seem to be prices for Priority Subscription.

RedHat still has a Self-Support subscription for $349.

So what is SUSE doing?

I did not find a forum that would be more appropriate for this question.[/color]

Note that these Forums are not officially monitored by SUSE staff so I
think your best bet is to contact your local SUSE Sales team - to do
this click the Let’s Talk button in the top-right of www.suse.com .

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner


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