From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 07:14:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C2A1D36 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 07:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "ca.infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4B98771 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 07:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zero-gravitas.local ([192.168.100.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id t387E8E8046984 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:14:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.9.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk t387E8E8046984 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/t387E8E8046984; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none; dkim-atps=neutral X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host [192.168.100.4] claimed to be zero-gravitas.local Message-ID: <5524D536.6000709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:13:58 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, naeem.saad@ufone.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD support required References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QSGT90PIqKfmLJWGLM6iahpgRu3hrIdQ1" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.6 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 07:14:18 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --QSGT90PIqKfmLJWGLM6iahpgRu3hrIdQ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015/04/08 07:03, Saad Bin Naeem/Information Technology/Islamabad wrot= e: > We are planning to deploy FreeBSD in our environment and we want suppo= rt for this OS. Our company is one of the top telecom company of Pakistan= =2E We already have the support of different OS like RHEL, Suse Linux, OE= L etc. I would appreciate if you can answer the following questions: >=20 > 1. Do you have any support for FreeBSD in Pakistan? >=20 > 2. If yes what is the cost? >=20 > Waiting for your quick response. I'm afraid you're not going to get much joy on this subject from the freebsd-questions@ list. It's a self-help list for a bunch of FreeBSD users, and while there may be people here that run businesses based on FreeBSD most of the readership is in Europe or America. Who knows though? Someone may pop up able to fulfil your requirements. I'd suggest contacting the BSD Pakistan user group via http://bsdpakistan.org/ but that site appears to be in Japanese now... There are lists of vendors and consultants available on the FreeBSD.org site: https://www.freebsd.org/commercial/commercial.html and it may be worth your while enquiring at the FreeBSD Foundation https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ FreeBSD doesn't have an associated commercial support company in the same way that eg. RedHat does for RedHat Linux. There's been some talk about creating such a company, but nothing concrete as yet. You can effectively get support from various independent contractors, or by hiring FreeBSD-savvy administrators, but that may not be of suitable for your purposes. On the other hand, FreeBSD has a very good track record of community support. The chances are that you can get solutions to your problems simply by asking online (and for free), but there are no constraints on how quickly support will be offered, nor is there anyone to sue for compensation in the event of losses due to FreeBSD failures. This is a problem for some corporates, but hasn't stopped some very well known names building their businesses on top of FreeBSD. 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