Subscription Benefits

Red Hat Enterprise Linux products are provided on a per-system annual subscription basis. Subscriptions take the pain out of purchasing software because they provide everything needed in one all-inclusive price. There are no Client Access Licenses. No support incident limits. No unbudgeted upgrade costs. No hidden charges.

Each subscription provides:

Product access

Source and binary code; documentation

Certifications

Deploy solutions with the confidence that your software applications and hardware are fully certified by leading Red Hat OEM and ISV partners.

Updates

Regular updates that provide general enhancements, new features, and additional hardware support

Revisions

Access to the latest bug fixes and security errata

Upgrades

Rights to new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that are released during the subscription lifetime

Flexibility

Deploy any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Subscriptions are not version-specific. And, with the exception of mainframe systems, subscriptions are not architecture-specific. So a subscription can be moved across architectures and from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system at any time.

Red Hat Network

Access to the Red Hat automated software delivery and update capabilities. Additional Red Hat Network modules provide enhanced systems management capabilities for enterprise deployments.

Support

Multiple support services providing unlimited incidents and coverage up to 24x7 with 1 hour response.

Long term stability

The user-mode and primary kernel-mode application interfaces for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux release are guaranteed to be kept stable for the life of the product. This ensures that product updates and enhancements do not impact application operation.

Legal assurance

The Red Hat Open Source Assurance program safeguards customers who are developing and deploying open source solutions from legal harm. Learn more.