From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 28 16:56:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487E416A4DA for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B057F43F48 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:26:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B101290C2C; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:25:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23588-10; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2DD290C1E; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:25:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95EF54A118; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:25:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951943C36C; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:25:58 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:25:58 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Francisco Reyes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060628132222.Q1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060620060845.U1114@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:56:09 -0000 On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Marc G. Fournier writes: > >> So, my question above, and a public call to -core, or anyone else: >> What can we, as a community, due to improve this situation? > > How about buying from vendors that specifically support FreeBSD. > http://freebsdsystems.com > http://ixsystems.com > > and surely others. In my case, it comes down to two words: remote administration ... HP is the only system I've yet found that has it integrated as part of the hardware ... The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5" SAS drives ... our new servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0 ... Other point is leasability ... from an accounting perspective, its better for me to lease servers, then it is to buy them outright ... being in Canada, its very difficult to lease servers from the US ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664