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My old mail (idea), source: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/2011-May/msg00003.html

 

Hello, 

Does the Red Hat thought about creating something like "Red Hat
Store"
for RHEL 6, where outside company can put one's own software (also
closed) compatible with RHEL 6? That system can be integrated with Red
Hat Network or Red
Hat Customer Portal. It can help work with RHEL 6. Shops like (App
Store) are very popular now. I am sure that store can make additional
profit for Red Hat and partners. 

Advantages:
- easy licenses management (Bought software is automatic visible in RHN,
easy installation/update later),
- additional promotion for Red Hat partners,
- easy shopping for clients,
- growing confidence to Red Hat

Defect:
- RHEL is a server Linux (that store is more for Desktop)


Maybe it is a good idea? 

If you have any questions I can explain my arguments. 

Best regards,
Paul Tarkowski

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I fully support the idea. At present my company supports custom yum repos with access control and billing for our customers. We provide a limited set of packages but need all the infrastructure behind it so it can work flawlessly with yum etc. For small companies this is an overkill.

 

Please allow 3rd party channels to be defined in similar way AWS allows everyone to define and export an AMI.

 

IMHO this will be sufficient:

   * be possible to upload RPM packages

   * be possible to assign packages to channels, e.g. source, i386, x86_64, etc.

   * be possible to define pricing, e.g. 20$/year/system to unlock the channel

 

Other nice to have:

   * make it possible that whoever created the channels can use the ticketing system of Red Hat to allow for support or bug reports.

   * provide access to package build system so that channel owners can build on various arches/RHEL versions

   * avoid the need to sign partner agreement of some sort for easier 3rd party on-boarding

   * If needed charge a small ammount for maintaining channels/tickets, etc. based on usage.

Thank you for your interest in the idea, I'm very glad that someone also considered my idea to be useful.

Within a few days I will publish more information about this idea. Perhaps it will encourage others to become interested this idea and maybe support it.

Best regards,
Paul Tarkowski

This is an interesting idea. I have a little difficulty seeing how well it would work but I would support this. A low cost channel that would be a landing spot for companies to submit their applications.

 

I'm not sure how well pay-for-use applications would do on this kind of model. But it would be nice as the updates would be pulled through the normal channel without the need to manually update the packages or use the 3rd parties designated update utility.

 

Would be interesting and depending on which 3rd parties would be willing to do this, might be a very valuable capability.

Hi,

 

RedHat had or has something like that. I know there idea was "like EPEL, but for commerial offerings". I know there was bacula, zabbix etc. in it.

 

Don't know if it still there, or if the discontinued it. It was during at the beginning of RHEL5.

 

CU

Jens

Red Hat eXchange (RHX) attempted similar from 2007-2010.  I don't know what the details or issues were, but it is no longer available.

 

http://rhx.redhat.com (defunct)

 

Related articles: 

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat#Red_Hat_Exchange
  • http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/058253/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead 

But perhaps reactivation?

 

My thoughts also:

http://centoscentrumpl.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-idea-for-red-hat-network.html

 

The blog is in Polish, but exceptionally entry in english language.

 

Best regards,

Paul Tarkowski

But servers wouldn't really want to use.  Also tricky to integrate with things like Satellite/Katello for managing large installations of desktop/workstation.

 

If a model could be found to allow deployment of these Apps via Satellite/Katello via controlled channels & entitlements - there's something to investigate here.  Tracking who is entitled to install/run which App in a large estate could be problematic - especially as the App model suits a device that is registered to a specific user rather than users being able to log in at any number of workstations.

Duncan,

 

 

App user subscription could be modelled as "organizational" subscriptions in Satellite. But like you mention, it can be difficult to handle if a lot of organization would have to be managed.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Jan Gerrit

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