RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

A predilection to evangelize tools that supports ones own belief in
software superiority is what curtails our ability to move any platform
forward. I would keep a hesitant eye on any individual that holds such
fervent beliefs. I have old NT servers that have run Disney.com for
several years and have served us well. Technology is an enabler, not a
divider. Too many people unknowingly adopt the later.

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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chad Leigh --
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:31 PM
To: Born, Clinton
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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?


On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote:

Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to
allocate our
shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period!

That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the
short term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when
support is dropped and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to
replace it with something else... So making value judgments like
tools that are known to be well supported on FReeBSD for example is
part of determining the best tool for the job

Chad


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amitabh Kant
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM
To: Nikolas Britton
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for
recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different
companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that
have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID
cards.

On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are
pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work
on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve
it's
uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor
doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open
documentation.


I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether
to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their
product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our
money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support
*BSD.

Amitabh
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