The price is very good. Once you buy the license, Linux will provide you with yearly or monthly patches, so your systems will be scalable for a long time. You can decide whether or not you want to install a patch. They're giving patches instead of going for automatic updates because some of the services will not work.
The cost depends on how the organization or a specific person licenses it. If you want the free version, there's Ubuntu which is supported by forums. You can pay for the license yearly or pay for a specific version.
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2018-08-06T14:01:00Z
Aug 6, 2018
You can pay for the support if you purchase Red Hat. We don't have the need for that just yet, and CentOS satisfies our needs when needed (assuming we can support it in-house).
CentOS is a versatile operating system with many use cases, including virtual spaces, scientific computing, data center servers, web-based applications, and more. Its valuable features include customization options, low memory consumption, performance, scalability, open-source nature, cost-saving, and compatibility with Red Hat packages.
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CentOS is an open-source tool.
We don’t have to pay for the system’s licenses.
The solution is open-source. We do not pay a licensing fee.
I do not handle licensing. It's not in my scope of work.
The solution is open source. Sometimes I donate a little bit of money to support the solution.
The solution is open source so it is free.
CentOS is an expensive solution. There are other solutions that are rated at the top that are not expensive, such as Red Hat or Oracle Linux.
The license is affordable. I rate the price a ten out of ten.
We used it as an open-source solution. We did not have to worry about licensing.
The solution is open-source and does not have any costs or licensing fees.
This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved.
We use the free, open-source solution because we cannot afford the price for Linux.
We're using the open-source version of CentOS.
The licensing is per device.
The price is very good. Once you buy the license, Linux will provide you with yearly or monthly patches, so your systems will be scalable for a long time. You can decide whether or not you want to install a patch. They're giving patches instead of going for automatic updates because some of the services will not work.
It's freeware, so we can use it without worrying about licensing.
The cost depends on how the organization or a specific person licenses it. If you want the free version, there's Ubuntu which is supported by forums. You can pay for the license yearly or pay for a specific version.
There are no costs for CentOS, it is open-source.
There are zero licensing costs for the solution. There are admin costs. We run it on VMware, so there has to be VMware cost.
We are using the community version, which is free.
We have no complaints about the price, which is quite reasonable. We have a CentOS license that we pay for on a yearly basis.
I'm not required to pay a licensing fee.
I use the free version.
The solution is not subscription-based, unlike Red Hat. It involves recompiled binaries, so it does not come with a subscription fee.
CentOS is a free solution.
There are no licensing fees for CentOS. It's a DPL project, there is no licensing cost.
There is no license required for this solution.
There are no licensing costs for CentOS.
You can pay for the support if you purchase Red Hat. We don't have the need for that just yet, and CentOS satisfies our needs when needed (assuming we can support it in-house).