Dear IT Professional Colleagues,
As previously communicated, due to significant increases in Red Hat licensing costs and declining usage of Red Hat operating system across IU, UITS will be phasing out over the next two years our enterprise license agreement. UITS will continue to fully fund Red Hat enterprise licenses for two additional years, with the idea that schools and departments will plan and execute migrations out of Red Hat and into an alternate Linux platform, such as CentOS. If schools and departments have not fully migrated during this two-year timeframe, departments and schools will be responsible for purchasing Red Hat license(s) at half the rate (approximately $135/server) for the second year (Feb 2022 to Feb 2023).
In order to facilitate this transition, we are providing access ( Red Hat list_ITCP_review.xlsx) to a spreadsheet with two worksheets: 1) systems with known owners (contacts column); and 2) servers with unidentified ownership. Please review these two worksheets and communicate back to ITCP (talk2uits@iu.edu) any changes to server ownership that you believe need to be made (either to existing or unknown ownership)
UITS recommends that Red Hat should only be used for business needs specifically requiring Red Hat; those units without an absolute dependency on Red Hat are strongly encouraged to migrate out of Red Hat to an alternative platform prior to February 2022. If migration is not possible, you should seek appropriate funding (current cost estimate could be projected to exceed $300/server) to cover full licensing costs after February, 2022.
Please see https://kb.iu.edu/d/aqau for further information on this transition.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of University Information Technology Services